A recent article  from Economist Magazine provides some interesting commentary on current trends around the world to get rid of energy subsidies. It notes that energy subsidies have wrrecked budgets and the environment alike : Of the $500 billion a year the IMF reckons they cost—the equivalent of four times all official foreign aid—half is […]

Editor’s note:  This article by His Royal Highness Chitimukulu of the Bemba people (“Henry Kanyanta Sosala”) provides important reflections on tribe, tribalism and culture. The article is reproduced from Lusaka Times. Preamble A tribe is a political, social and economic unit; it’s like a social class in Europe in which people find their polyglot neighbours […]

Swiss Made Poverty?

A telling quote from a recent article on how mispricing and the opacity of commodities trading in Switzerland is contributing to Africa’s underdevelopment : Switzerland is a global hub for trade in commodities, and so exerts a significant influence on Africa’s development. But critics say the way commodities are traded through the country is shrouded […]

Fiscal Decentralisation in Zambia

Editor’s note: the article below is from  the recent Parliamentary Committee on Estimates report (July 2014) which covers wide range of areas. We have extracted the article on fiscal decentralisation for ease of access. Some minor edits have been made for ease of reading. The revised Decentralisation Policy was launched by His Excellency the President, […]

Return Nigeria’s Stolen Artefacts You British Thieves

AFRICANGLOBE –  Nigeria’s House of Representatives Thursday called on the British Parliament to intervene in Nigeria’s efforts to get stolen Nigerian artefacts in various museums in the United Kingdom repatriated. The House in adopting a motion calling for the repatriation of the artefacts also took a decision to communicate it to the British parliament. The […]

Zimbabwe in Medical Breakthrough: Conjoined Twins Separated

AFRICANGLOBE – Zimbabwe has broken new ground in its medical history by successfully performing the first major operation on Siamese twins born in April, with a team of 50 having worked on the eight-hour delicate procedure at Harare Children’s Hospital. Born on April 22 this year to a Murehwa couple, the twin boys christened Kupakwashe […]

Left to Die: Africans in Israel Not Given Missile Safety Information

AFRICANGLOBE – As missile warning sirens sound across Israel, tens of thousands of African refugees have allegedly been left confused and alone, without information from the government on what to do to protect themselves and their families, Ha’aretz reported. These African asylum seekers in Tel Aviv – almost all of whom are legally refugees under international […]

Black Entrepreneurs See Big Hurdles to Success

AFRICANGLOBE – Texas has provided a fertile atmosphere these past five years for business prosperity and economic growth. But as researchers who are close to the entrepreneurial process and have owned businesses ourselves, we understand that developing entrepreneurial firms, and the perceptions of their owners, aren’t always in sync with the larger economic picture. The […]

Nigerian-owned Oil Companies to Produce 500,000 Bpd by 2018

AFRICANGLOBE – Nigerian wholly owned exploration and production companies operating at the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry will produce 500,000 barrels of oil daily that represents about 20% of the Nigerian output by 2018, according to the Managing Director of Seplat Petroleum Development Mr. Austin Avuru. The Seplat boss who spoke at Lagos […]

Obama and the Cia—who Really Runs Washington?

AFRICANGLOB – The arrests, raids, apartment searches and discussions about a wider spy ring taking place in Berlin recall the Cold War novels of John le Carré, chronicling the period in which the city was a covert battleground between the KGB, on the one hand, and the US, British and German intelligence services on the […]

The Congressional Black Caucus Has No Conscience

AFRICANGLOBE – The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) describes itself as “the conscience of the U.S. Congress.”  According to the dictionary, conscience is the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one’s conduct or motives.  Notice that the root of the word conscience is the word “con,” which is exactly what the CBC has […]