Emergent Africa

Trevor Ncube writes : For those who are still in denial, it is worth restating: Zimbabwe is broken. Its people are broken. Their minds an...

About sports, A  Basketball Academy : SEED Academy is a boarding-school environment for up to 40 high school-aged boys and girls providin...

A paper by William Babbitt, Michael Lachney, Enoch Bulley and  Ron Eglash : image via the ethnosproject This paper details the deve...

A Four-Part Series   from War Is Boring : View image | gettyimages.com The culture of impunity in South Sudan  — the world’s you...

Why did the Industrial Revolution happen? Why, for the past two centuries, have hundreds of millions of people moved off the farm and into f...

This is why we need independent makerspace type environments . African universities as presently structured do not have the necessary DNA ...

Sharanjit Leyl writing in the BBC : Fifty years ago Singapore became an independent state, after leaving the short-lived Malaysian F...

Orville Schell writing in the WSJ : He preached ‘Asian values’ and turned a tiny, poor city-state into an astonishing economic success. ...

Even more relevant for Africa, Baba Prasad writing in Live Mint : Indian innovation and entrepreneurship suffer because they rely too m...

Jeremy Weate writes in African Arguments : ...the NGO sector in Africa has become a thriving cottage industry . Just as evangelical c...