The Emerging, Booming, Rising Stories of Africa: Hype or Hope?

Recent editorials on Africa are catchy, grizzly, and even sexy. They come with unique calming aroma. The continent is emerging, booming, rising. The middle class is bulging. So I visited. What I saw is what you will see if you do. The headlines are true for Lagos, Accra, and Addis Ababa, but they are far from the reality in the fringes, the outskirts of the countries. Are the rising, booming, and emerging stories and editorials a hype or hope?

Poverty Drops With Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

by Steve Crabtree and Anita Pugliese Gallup polls from 2009 to 2011 find sub-Saharan Africans with a secondary education are less likely to live in poverty, stressing the need for universal access to this level of education. Across the 38 countries surveyed, a median of 85% of adults with a primary education or less are… Continue reading Poverty Drops With Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

South Sudan food Security Improves

12 January 2011, Rome/Juba – The number of people in need of food assistance in southern Sudan has decreased markedly – though prospects for food security largely depend on the post-referendum period and the number of people returning to the South, a United Nations report said today. An assessment by the UN Food and Agricultural… Continue reading South Sudan food Security Improves

Globalization And The Development of Africa

The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary 6th Edition defines the word global as a phenomenon that includes many parts. Moving a step further from this definition, globalization could be described as a concept or phenomenon that includes all parts of the world and also operates around the world; hence the whole world is looked upon as… Continue reading Globalization And The Development of Africa

Africa’s youth can do great things, says UN Chief

African graduate leaving the continent for greener pastures

Africa’s young population can drive the continent’s future development, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told an international symposium taking place in Benin. More than 60 per cent of Africa’s 1 billion people are under the age of 25 years, he noted in a message to the meeting in Cotonou. “While it will be a tremendous undertaking to… Continue reading Africa’s youth can do great things, says UN Chief

Africa can reach development targets if given a push-Migiro

Africa, with its immense human and material wealth, can achieve the globally agreed development targets world leaders have pledged to achieve by 2015, Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro told United Nations agencies working on the continent, while also stressing the need for strong support from the international community. “The continent’s people need neither pity nor charity,… Continue reading Africa can reach development targets if given a push-Migiro