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Encouraging Leaders to Do the Right Thing, by Nicholas van Praag

Spare the stick, spoil the child.” That was the advice from proponents of the tough love approach to parenting that prevailed in Victorian times. Nicholas van Praag asks whether such rewards and punishment policy can help in places such as Sudan

Africa Command: Opportunity for Engagement or the Militarization of U.S.-Africa Relations? Dr Wafula Okumu

 Background Until recently, Africa has not been strategically attractive to the U.S.  This is partly because U.S. interests in Africa had not been clearly defined and it had no bureaucratic structure to manage those almost nonexistent interests. For a long time, the strategic thinking has been that the U.S. has “no compelling interests in Africa”… Continue reading Africa Command: Opportunity for Engagement or the Militarization of U.S.-Africa Relations? Dr Wafula Okumu

Where Ghana Went Right: How one African country emerged intact from its post-colonial struggles, John Schram

John Schram, Senior fellow with the Queen’s Centre for International Relations, Former Canadian High Commissioner to Ghana, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Liberia from 1994 to 1998. Early one December morning in 1965, a few months after my arrival in Ghana, I was jolted out of a tropical sleep by a pile of Daily Graphic newspapers whumping… Continue reading Where Ghana Went Right: How one African country emerged intact from its post-colonial struggles, John Schram