It is always difficult to talk about Ghana’s March 6 independence day without talking about Dr.Kwame Nkrumah–quintessential Pan-Africanist. I cannot wait to see what the African Union (AU) has in store to commemorate his birthday on 21st September, and what they also have for AU day on 25 May!

Ghanaian entrepreneurs earn about USD 150 for every frame they build, while the finished bikes are sold in United States for about USD 950 each.

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. A recent study published by US-based National Bureau of Economic Research shows that:

African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly;
If present trends continue, the poverty Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of people with incomes less than one dollar a day will be [...]

Nowadays, I feel like every African President get into power with only one agenda: Steal national money and stay in power forever.
Elected power in Africa has become a right rather than a service. And it seems almost all Africans given the opportunity will follow that agenda or are you different?
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Many experts believe Africa, with its expansive base of newly minted consumers, may very well be on the verge of becoming the next India, thanks to frenetic urbanization and the sort of big push in services and infrastructure that transformed the Asian subcontinent 15 years ago. Just as India once harnessed its booming population of cheap labor, Africa stands to gain by the rapid growth of its big cities.

Almost half of the 72 million children out of school worldwide in 2007 lived in sub-Saharan Africa. In the view of most education advocates, school fees served more as a barrier to the poor than as a source of finance for good education.

African entrepreneurs helping lead the way with innovative approaches to trade and exports. Focus on Ethiopia…

“I dropped out of school to pursue what was natural to me: media and entertainment…and I realized if I had to make a difference, I needed to try something no one had tried before.”

In the absence of the president, what’s the word in Nigeria over Haiti? Nigeria should be in the fore-front of African nations helping in Haiti. But so far, it’s been nothing but condolences, and more condolences!

Widespread drug trafficking is transforming the African continent into a major crime hub, according to the United Nations. The head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa, said yesterday “terrorists and anti-government forces” were trading huge amounts of heroin and cocaine to fund their operations. He added the situation in Somalia [...]