BRICS is in the news this week. For a long time to come, it will be in the news, more so for Africa. As the most unintended biting critique of the ‘Clash of Civilisations’ paradigm, the idea... Read more
Interview By Marian Blasberg, Jens Glüsing & Britta Kollenbroich His sun shone brilliantly and Brazil emerged from the stereotype of a basket case. He was even taunting the IMF wi... Read more
It must be in 1996 or 1997 that Newsweek did a cover story on crisis management leadership by looking at each of the incumbents of the G-7 only to conclude that the world was leaderless and... Read more
Arusha, the Tanzanian city where the late President Julius Nyerere declared ‘Ujamaa’, (his cultural Socialism) 51 years ago is again the venue of a possible new declaration about getting the... Read more
It seems former president Obasanjo would still successfully install the next president of Nigeria in 2019 before people wake up to realise he has done it again as he has always managed to d... Read more