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AfricaSource
By Sami Abdelhalim Saeed
A number of challenges confront Sudan on its road to democracy. How the country's leaders and the international community address them could either make or break the dreams of the 2019 revolution.
By Rama Yade
Africa’s voice, economic potential, and geopolitical posture are more critical than ever. And the United States knows it.
By Hippolyte Fofack
Africa has been squeezed into a limited role in global value chains. But leaders in Washington this week can rebalance the US-African trade relationship—and fulfill Africa's economic potential.
By Aubrey Hruby and Guillaume Arditti
At a time when investors are faced with high risks due to a global economic downturn, African markets are a viable investment opportunity.
By Alexander Tripp and Caitlin Mittrick
The queen’s death brought the monarchy’s legacy of colonialism on the African continent to the fore. What’s next for the Commonwealth and Africa?
By Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou and Mamta Murthi
The World Bank's Wadata Talaka safety-net partnership program with Niger aims to empower women in the country and protect its human-capital gains in the face of overlapping shocks.
By Jean-Paul Mvogo
The development progress the DRC witnessed in the 1970s is now lost. A massive economic assistance program equivalent to the Marshall Plan may be necessary to recover what's been lost.
By Rama Yade, Tyrell Junius
The outcomes of TICAD8 in Tunis, attended by some 20 African heads of state and government, reflect the clear aim of Japan to differentiate itself from China.
Africans are looking at the United States’ focus on the war in Ukraine and on tensions in the Indo-Pacific, and they’re wondering: Will the United States truly consider African countries as strategic partners as China and Russia claim to do?
By Alexander Tripp
Mandela Day recognizes not only a great world leader, but also the value of African voices on the international stage.
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