Can Africa ever unite? This question has perplexed generations across the continent for over seven decades. The formation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) on May 25, 1963, was driven by the core mission of fostering African unity. Yet, 62 years later, Africa appears more fragmented than it was in 1963. To suggest that …
Too Divided to Unite: The Hurdles to African Unity. Read More »
In the international conversations regarding immigration , most emphasis is on the migration crisis in Europe , the United States and migrant labour in the middle East . However , not much is said on the intra- African migration . Uganda found in East Africa, has positioned herself , in the the previous 30 years …
UGANDA’S OPEN DOOR POLICY – THE GATEWAY TO ECONOMIC PROSPERITY? Read More »
PREFACE. For as long as the records have been written and shared worldwide, the African narrative is mainly that of the perspective of foreigners. During the great age of European exploration, it was the European discoveries that shaped the way the African interior was depicted to a wider global community especially the European powers that …
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Everyone is familiar with the scramble and partition of Africa by the European powers in the late 19th century. However 135 years later, there is a new wave of scramble of the African cake by many powers , majority of whom weren’t in the original berlin conference of 1885. Economic benefits such as utilization of …
AN INSIGHT INTO CHINA’S STRATEGY IN AFRICA. PRELUDE Its January 2012, and under the intense sunshine of the AddisAbaba sky, the then African union chairman H.E Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea among other leaders opened the newly constructed African union headquarters. A symbol of African nationalism, pride and unity , the African union headquarters …
Brief Overview . Of all the colonial powers that conquered Africa , France with exception of Britain (through the commonwealth ) has created a more integrated relationship with her former African colonies. Over time the term ‘’francafrique’ has gone to define this post independence relationship between Paris and her former colonies. A relationship that never …
FRANCAFRIQUE – THE MODERN TALE OF PARIS ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT Read More »
It’s early December 2023 in Kampala, and the government of Uganda is eagerly preparing for the long awaited Non Aligned Movement and G-77 summits to be held In January of the next year . As the mood is heightened due to the fact that such events shall improve the country’s international relations, there is a …
