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african leaders – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com Connecting To Advance Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:34:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.talkafrique.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ta_logo22-150x92.jpg african leaders – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com 32 32 Why Politicians Don’t Deliver Electoral Promises http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/why-politicians-don%e2%80%99t-deliver-electoral-promises http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/why-politicians-don%e2%80%99t-deliver-electoral-promises#comments Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:34:49 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=7768 In case you do not have enough time to read this brief piece, the answer to the question raised above is: corruption. Yes, sounds familiar? I am talking about politicians in developing countries. In general terms, politicians in developed nations are not angels but they are structurally constrained to corner public monies to build private …

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/why-politicians-don%e2%80%99t-deliver-electoral-promises/feed 1 How Far Will African Dictators Go to Quell The New Wave of Popular Uprising? http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/african-dictators-revolutio-wave-popular-uprising http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/african-dictators-revolutio-wave-popular-uprising#comments Sun, 20 Feb 2011 02:48:55 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=7128 African countries are going through a dynamic change, a change that the regimes cannot curtail even with the oppressive state apparatuses that have been employed over the years vehemently hold power. Two leadership casualties have been recorded so far; Ben-Ali of Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. These protests which regimes describe as social unrest …

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/african-dictators-revolutio-wave-popular-uprising/feed 2 Egypt Showed That True Sovereignty Lies With The People But Other Nations Should ‘Glocalize’ Their Situations http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/egypt-protest-people-power-africa-glocalize http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/egypt-protest-people-power-africa-glocalize#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:07:10 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=7016 History was made last week in Egypt when the incumbent President Hosni Mubarak after what has been described as an ‘unprecedented protest’ which lasted for about two weeks finally in a press briefing declared he was quitting office. Presently, Egypt’s national administration is temporarily in the hands of the military until fresh elections are conducted to …

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/egypt-protest-people-power-africa-glocalize/feed 3 How Digital Technology Has Become Integral in The Quest for Freedom Across Africa http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/digital-technology-revolutionfreedom-africa http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/digital-technology-revolutionfreedom-africa#comments Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:06:25 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=6959 John Dramani Mahama, Vice President of Ghana Watching the the Egyptian crowds as they listened to a speech by their now former president, Muhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak, who had been in power since the assassination of Anwar El Sadat in 1981, only confirmed what is becoming more and more obvious: that for Africa there is …

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]]> In Africa, a Man Without Job Has no Status http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/millenium-development-goals-unemployment-africa Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:28:44 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=6830 Michael Fleshman For 17 years Peter worked as a machine operator in a South African textile plant. It was not high-paying work, but it paid the bills and kept his family above the poverty line. When he lost his job because foreign imports were cheaper, he told University of KwaZulu-Natal researcher Claire Ichou, he was …

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]]> African Leaders Must Learn to Accept Change http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/african-leaders-must-learn-to-accept-change http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/african-leaders-must-learn-to-accept-change#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:15:26 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=6763 Change is often referred to as the only constant thing in life. How prepared are we as individuals, families, nations and the global community to accept change? If you would recollect, it was the need for change that brought paved the way for Barrack Obama to emerge as the 44th president of the United States …

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/african-leaders-must-learn-to-accept-change/feed 3 Beyond Political Turmoil in Africa: We Are Blessed, Not Cursed http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/africa-blessed-beyongpolitical-turmoil http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/africa-blessed-beyongpolitical-turmoil#comments Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:11:44 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=6604  In the last couple of months, there hav been pockets of crises here and there on the African continent. From Ivory Coast to Sudan, and from Tunisia to Egypt, it has been tales of cacophony and woes. This seems worrisome in a continent blessed with abundant human and material resources. There is a tendency to …

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/african-revolution/feed 2 The Ivory Coast Crisis and African Leaders, Botswana’s Ian Kharma Stands Out http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/the-ivory-coast-crisis-african-leader-botswana-ian-kharma-stands-out Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:22:20 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=6241 While several African Presidents have failed in displaying any leadership with regard to the Ivorian crisis, the President of Botswana, Ian Khrma, is telling the world that he is not one of them. Mr Khama has publicly denounced the Ivorian dictator and is extending an invitation to the opposition candidate to visit Botswana. Will Ghana, …

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