Tough love just for Africa?

Chinwuba Iyizoba | 24 September 2009 | comment 7

Despite the rhetoric of Western leaders, it appears the West is happy to keep Africa poor to exploit its natural wealth.

The curse of child slavery

Chinwuba Iyizoba | 14 July 2009 | comment 16

Many busy professional couples in Nigeria find it handy to have a child slave to help around the house. Where are the family values in that?

Living on a civilisational fault line

Chinwuba Iyizoba | 03 June 2009 | comment 2

President Obama should study Nigeria to see how Christians and Muslims co-exist. 

Beyond the culture of dependency in Africa

Wangari Maathai | 27 May 2009 | comment 2

The experience of poor farmers in Kenya is a lesson in the need for an ethical revolution against corruption, says the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace prize.

I Am Justice

Martyn Drakard | 26 May 2009

The world's most amazing migration is the perilous journey from the centre of Africa to Italy.

Threading the Needle

Thomas M. Woods and Roger Bate | 19 May 2009 | comment 1

How to give Zimbabwe the boost it needs without propping up Mugabe

Silent heroes of Africa

Chinwuba Iyizoba | 14 May 2009 | comment 14

Life is about more than lifestyle. So which is the real Dark Continent, Africa or Europe?

When kindness kills

Martyn Drakard | 20 April 2009 | comment 3

Aid to Africa is stifling enterprise, feeding corruption and keeping oppressive governments in power.

Dead Aid

Dermot Grenham | 06 April 2009 | comment 4

Could Africa be poor because developed countries give undeveloped ones too much money?

Making war on the African child

Chinwuba Iyizoba | 25 March 2009 | comment 7

Will Nigeria be the first country to be bought with Obama’s funding for abortion groups?

Africa needs better media coverage

Martyn Drakard | 22 March 2009 | comment 9

The international media has a woeful ignorance of Africa. Why don't they listen to someone who knows? 

African AIDS: the facts that demolish the myths

Michael Cook | 22 March 2009 | comment 25

The mystery of why AIDS has been so devastating in Africa has been solved. And it’s not lack of condoms.

Heart of Darfur

Martyn Drakard | 15 January 2009 | comment 2

A New Zealand nurse cares for some of the most desperate people on earth and discovers dignity and courage in their suffering. 

Power play

Nwachukwu Egbunike | 08 January 2009 | comment 8

Reconnecting to the power grid is not child's play in Nigeria. Especially when you own the grid.

Who cares about third world mothers?

Robert Walley | 17 December 2008 | comment 1

The hidden scandal of unsafe childbirth and the hope that a new professional initiative is bringing to mothers.

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