Why Africa Is Turning to China
China portrays Africa as a partner in common prosperity, rather than a “doomed continent” requiring aid.
People, Machines, and Challenging the Election Results in Ghana
The declared loser in the Ghana presidential election is not going gently into the electoral good night.
How West Africa Helped Win World War II
The Second World War’s Eurocentric history must be widened to give sub-Saharan Africans and many other world peoples their due.
Ghanaian Oil: Only for the 1 Percent?
Can Ghana make its nascent oil industry work for the 99 percent?
Oil Over Troubled Waters?
Will Ghana’s new oil industry provoke civil, economic, and environmental conflict?
Occupy Nigeria
Africa’s most populous nation has a unique history of fighting against injustice.
Food of the Gods
The politics and socioeconomics of chocolate and why it is still a guilty pleasure.
Target: Africa
Al-Qaeda is having a near-death experience, so why is the Obama administration opening a new front against terrorism in Africa?
Dismantling Elmina Castle
Ghana is the latest focus of oil companies. Can it escape the resource curse?
WikiLeaks XXII: Once a Beacon of Freedom to Africa, Ghana Now Corrupted by Drug Trafficking
Drug enforcement in Ghana targets only the small dealers.
Obama to Africa: Tough Love or Tough Luck?
It is time for Africans to practice some tough love on Barack Obama.
Obama Visits Africa’s ‘Oil Gulf’
President Barack Obama makes his historic visit to Africa. Born of a Kenyan economist father, Obama will go not to his ancestral lands but to Ghana, Africa’s newest oil state.
What Obama Should Say in Ghana
What Obama says in his Accra speech will influence Africa’s place in the world.
Straight Talk: Revealing the Real U.S.-Africa Policy
It’s time for some straight talk on U.S.-Africa policy.