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Building The Africa We Want0
- Africa, African Union, Education, Leadership, Politics, Terrorism
- 24.02.2020.
9 days into February 2020, the African Union Heads of State Assembly began. It was the last of the many activities that made up the African Union Summit 2020 whose activities started on the 21st of January. When the Summit is held: It has 3 key events. The first statutory meeting is that of the
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Xenophobia in SA, Social Media’s Immediacy in Modifying African Behaviour0
- Africa, South Africa
- 16.09.2019.
This recent week, if I owned Facebook, Google or WhatsApp and sitting far, far away from South Africa, Southern Africa and Africa itself I would be crunching the data of those that use my applications in those parts of the world. Not literary mathematically crunching at it but waiting for the algorithms to give me
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Zille vs. Haffajee on hate speech and the Economic Freedom Fighters0
- Democracy, Development, Politics, South Africa
- 26.08.2019.
Before we talk about what the law says, we should talk and think about what sort of society we hope for the law to help create. The law is always going to be an imperfect tool for managing millions of often selfish, confused, partisan, and otherwise compromised humans. So when talking about liberal values such
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Bridging the Digital Divide for Universal Health Coverage innovation in Africa0
- Africa, Health Care
- 08.04.2019.
Can Africa achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC)? There are mountains to climb when it comes to achieving UHC in Africa – poverty, inadequate infrastructure, lack of political will among others. Yet, technology has proved that Africa can leapfrog into the future. The mobile money innovation, has for instance, made it possible for the previously unbanked
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The Way Forward on Social Media Shutdowns0
- DRC - Kinshasa, Freedom of Expression, Human Rights, Internet, Media, Politics, Social Media, Uganda, Zimbabwe
- 01.02.2019.
Digital authoritarianism is rapidly becoming fashionable in Africa. In 2018, Access Now recorded 21 shutdowns in Africa, a sharp rise from 13 shutdowns in 2017. In that period, the longest shutdown was reported in Cameroon where it lasted at least 230 days. Similar trends were noted globally – from 75 shutdowns in 2016, incidents of
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Role of Young People in Africa Today0
- Africa, Democracy, Development
- 24.12.2018.
You know that moment when someone says something that you have been thinking but been unable to either put it into the right words or even just say because you don’t think it was ‘a thing’. Sorry if I am rumbling : but this is what happened to me whilst listening to Mr John Githongo
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- Africa, Development
- 26.11.2018.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) recently had an online news feature titled, ‘Can Voluntary Colonialism Stop Migration to Europe?’. While the title itself is more a suggestion than a question what was shocking in the article were comments attributed to Germany’s Minister of state for Africa, Gunter Nooke. He is reported to have said the following,
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When a picture is worth a thousand words: Xi Jinping meets ‘Africa’2
- Africa, Development
- 05.09.2018.
A picture is worth a thousand words, is the phraseology popularised in 1927, by advertising executive Fred R. Barnard. He coined the phrase, to refer to the notion that a complex idea can be conveyed with just a single still image or that an image of a subject conveys its meaning or essence more effectively
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Kabila’s opponent Moses Katumbi prevented from returning to DRC0
- Africa, Democracy, DRC - Kinshasa, Freedom of Expression, Governance, Human Rights
- 06.06.2018.
In the DRC, only members and relatives of the regime can move freely in the country. They enter and leave the country without problem. But this is not the case for opponents. They are watched under a magnifying glass. Moses Katumbi Chapwe is one of them. The former governor of Katanga has been in exile
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Of Kenya’s ‘Illiberal’ Democracy0
- Kenya, Uncategorized
- 23.02.2018.
GUEST BLOG The recent happenings in Kenya call for sober reflection on the nature of our democracy, and by extension, our political culture. When we champion ourselves as a model of democracy in (East) Africa, is that an accurate description? Could it be that we are self-delusional? As Marcus Tullius Cicero keenly noted, salus populi
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