This Week’s Africa’s Great: Hail And Farewell Chinua Achebe
Achebe died in Boston, at age 82. He was a towering figure of world letters, most famous for his first novel, Things Fall Apart, which was published in 1958 and went on to sell some 10 million copies...
View ArticleWhy The BRICS Included South Africa And Not Nigeria!
BRAZIL, Russia, India, China and South Africa (commonly referred to as the BRICS) recently concluded the fifth annual meeting. As the Economist have pointed out, the confusion arises from the fact that...
View ArticleTop 10 Greatest Ever African Players!
There is nothing that captures the interest of a football fan more than a round-table debate over who is the finest or the greatest. While many of these contests are inconclusive, open-to-doubt and...
View ArticleAFRICA’S TOP TEN OIL PRODUCERS
You may know of the phrase “resource curse.” According to the Time Magazine, the Resource Curse describes the phenomenon of how, when a poor country discovers vast natural wealth, economists around the...
View ArticleAFRICA’S TOP 100 UNIVERSITIES 2015
A quick look shows that South African universities dominate the top. The five best universities in the continent are all from South Africa. Second to South Africa is Egypt with four universities in the...
View Article10 Most Expensive Cities in Africa
Luanda, the metropolitan capital of Angola, is the most expensive city in Africa – and in the world — for expats and expatriates. This is according to the 2015 Cost of Living Survey published by U.S-...
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