What happens when Law has to hold the Powerful accountable

A striking example of this exact dilemma unfolded in Liberia. The detention of Liberia’s former Vice President, Jewel Howard-Taylor, at Roberts International Airport in Monrovia sent immediate shockwaves through the country's political landscape.

Africa's Talent Pipeline: the deficit, the diagnosis, and the skills that decide what comes next.

Every ten years, Africa adds roughly the equivalent of Germany's entire population to its youth workforce. However, the continent currently creates only enough formal jobs for about a quarter of them.

The Rise of Green Agri-Tech in Africa

African agritech startups raised less than $170 million in 2025, down from more than $200 million in 2024, according to Briter’s State of Agtech Investment in Africa 2025.

Why UNEP Says the Next Climate Battle Is About Limiting the Overshoot

UNEP’s September 2026 Limiting Overshoot report says global warming is likely to exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels within the next few years. But it does not describe that threshold as a point beyond which climate action becomes pointless.

Can $200 Million Reach the Farmers Who Need It?

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Equity Group have launched the Africa Rural Climate Adaptation Finance Mechanism (ARCAFIM), a 12-year initiative designed to expand access to climate-adaptation finance for smallholder farmers and rural businesses.

The Hidden Nutrition Crisis in Africa

The World Bank reported in 2025 that 37% of locally produced food in Africa is lost in transit, citing slow processing, inadequate infrastructure and other supply-chain barriers. Climate-related disruptions can add another layer of pressure to a system that already struggles.

Are Developers Moving Faster Than Alignment?

In September, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned and publicly accused both Anthropic and OpenAI of moving too aggressively toward self-improving AI. Are AI capabilities advancing faster than humanity’s ability to understand and control them?

Ghana’s New Test for State-Owned Enterprises

Ghana’s State Ownership Policy already provides for entity-specific key performance indicators covering areas such as financial performance, efficiency, productivity, service delivery and public-policy objectives. It also provides for remuneration to be linked to agreed KPIs.

African Storytelling is Evolving Past Culture and Becoming an Economic Asset

The commercial value of a story does not necessarily end when the production is released. A successful film or series can generate value through broadcasting and streaming rights, licensing, merchandising, international distribution and adaptations.

Reinventing the Future: How Portable Hardware and Mindset Shifts Are Building Africa's Engineering Pipeline

From a 2018 school visit to four new kits deployed across seven African countries, STEMAIDE Africa turned an under-resourced training program into an offline-first STEM pipeline, proving Africa's talent gap closes with homegrown tools built for its own African realities.

Illegal Mining Crackdowns Hit Everyone Except the Financiers

Illegal, small-scale gold mining in Africa is not sustained by desperate individuals. Estimates place its foreign-exchange contribution at roughly $11B, ahead of the $9B generated by large-scale, licensed miners, with an estimated 70%-80% of artisanal miners operating outside licensing frameworks.

Africa's Sweetest Export Still Remains Unsatiating

Cocoa's troubles in Africa cannot be separated from the economic architecture within which it was introduced. The crop arrived in West Africa as part of a colonial export system designed to move raw commodities out of Africa and into European processing plants, refineries and factories.