BERKELEY: On July 10, one very important descendant of black Africa made a triumphant return to the motherland.
Scholars speak of "the empire striking back, referring to former colonized peoples, such as immigrants from Africa and India, settling (...)
The anxiety over Jacob Zuma's election as president of South Africa obscures a significant milestone: for the first time in decades, a sub-Saharan nation has at its helm a champion of ordinary people.
African politics has long been the exclusive (...)
ACCRA: The United States suffers rising job losses. Britain nationalizes its banks. Once high-flying small economies like Ireland, Hungary, and Iceland break down. Even robust China and India are experiencing slower growth, curtailed ambitions, and (...)
KAMPALA: On a balmy afternoon, I met Dr. Gilbert Bukenya at his home on the shores of Lake Victoria, where we talked about the future of farming in Uganda. "By farming smarter, he said, "Ugandans not only can grow more, they can earn more (...)
Forget MIT. Hello, Tsing Hua University. For Clothilde Tingiri, a hot young programmer at Rwanda's top software company, dreams of Beijing, not Cambridge, animate her ambitions. Desperate for more education, this fall she plans to attend graduate (...)