(A reaction to Finance Minister’s Directive for the Youth) Dear new, young Entrepreneur, As Finance Minister has said the payroll is full and that you should go into Entrepreneurship, I welc... Read more

Cameroon’s five-year conflict could be taking a significant new turn with reports that its English-speaking separatist groups are getting help from an armed group in neighbouring Niger... Read more

It’s 10 years since the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, was killed by rebels during an armed revolt. In the unrest which has beset the country since his downfall, Libya has staged two... Read more

It could not have got off to a much better start for Jumia’s historic stock market listing. The hoopla on the day it became the first Africa-focussed tech firm to list on the New York... Read more

In our series of letters from African journalists, Elizabeth Ohene looks at plans to build a state-of-the-art complex in Ghana to honour the pioneering US black civil rights activist William... Read more

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was once widely praised outside the country for his reforming zeal but that image was shattered after he launched a civil war in the north of the c... Read more

“I was surrounded by malaria. All of my friends had it, I had it, my siblings and parents.” Bello Abdul Hakeem Bolaji is one of the millions of people across Africa who’ve... Read more

Thirty-four years, almost to the day, since the shocking killing of Burkina Faso’s then President, Thomas Sankara, 14 men are going on trial, accused of complicity in the murder of the... Read more

The NDC party needs a new leadership face of both presidential and national executive’s front as the only solution for unity in winning any election again. JDM must step aside from bidding t... Read more

Former Nigeria captain and coach Sunday Oliseh has said that current players and coaches must be involved in any discussion about having a World Cup every two years. Football’s governi... Read more

A young charismatic soldier, Col Mamady Doumbouya has anointed himself as the leader of Guinea after overthrowing the octogenarian president who once put his faith in him to help him keep hi... Read more

As a young child, I was not spared with the trauma and fearsomeness associated with the related consequences and excesses of the coup d’etats staged by the AFRC and PNDC between 1979 to 1991... Read more

“The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” This quote attributed to Oscar Wilde seems to make sense, even today. As we interrogate the cost of a project, and everyth... Read more

“Etwitwa mini suro ayaya nna”. That is an Akan proverb which loosely translates as “the cutthroat fears to sleep in supine position,lest his own throat be slashed”. Muhamadu Bawumia,Ghana’s... Read more