Are African countries copying blindly the theory and practice of lockdown or not? Is lockdown a case of generals always fighting the last war, (using Ebola tactics to fight Coronavirus?) ins... Read more
COVID-19 has, so far been dominated by the medical dimension of it. It will not be long before the geopolitical reasoning and practices around it will follow. That will even be hotter than t... Read more
It is still a UK controversy but there is no guarantee it would not expand into a global controversy. And the question is whether closing schools helps against spread of COVID-19 or not. The... Read more
This insight answers the question on the magic bullet South Korea deployed to contain COVID-19 without much lockdown and the paralyzing tension that has gripped other states. The Begin-Sadat... Read more
It is now trite to say the world is under siege. But the siege cannot last forever. A multiplicity of efforts are going in too many places and levels that the world will prevail. How soon th... Read more
King Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand is on what might be called a Coronavirus holiday and in the grand style typical of monarchs. The pandemic did not stop the King from embarking on a kingl... Read more
Whether it was invented or mutated naturally, Coronavirus has acted as a change agent in a magnitude nobody anticipated. (Let’s quickly qualify this statement by recognising that students of... Read more
Amazon, the online global supermarket is offering more so as for its workers to work extra hours as the demand for its services rise with the lock down in most global cities. Leveraging on i... Read more
The Intriguing Politics of the Fall of Tidjane Thiam, the African Financial Whiz kid, in Switzerland
The Swiss society, comments a well located observer, is like many societies, not open enough. One moment, says the commentator, you’re a hero but only not to be Swiss enough in another momen... Read more
Italy, Spain, Switzerland and France are, by now, completely shut down. These are some of the most dramatic cases. There are others in Asia. Unless African leaders have a joker, it would not... Read more
