Democracy

Ethnicity and tribalism: are these the root causes of the Sudanese civil conflicts?

Recent civil conflicts in Sudan, including in Darfur, have commonly been explained as clashes between competing ethnic groups. Pamela Paglia argues that this concentration on ethnicity as the primary cause for conflicts in Africa underestimates the complexity of African societies and politics.  

Corruption in Nigeria: A New Paradigm for Effective Control

There are many unresolved problems in Nigeria, but the issue of the upsurge of corruption is troubling. And the damages it has done to the polity are astronomical, explains Victor Dike

Deconstructing the concept of human rights in Africa

While the promotion of human rights is important everywhere in the world, emphasis should also be given the concept of human responsibility. Kenneth Mwenda argues that in less individualistic societies, such as those in Africa and Asia, the promotion of social and individual responsibilities - for both the state and the individual - can help bring about a social order that may provide appropriate moral and ethical incentives necessary for social development.

Single or Multi-Party System: What Option for Africa?

"asks Sola Akinrinade. There is more to democracy than the holding of periodic elections, he says.

A NATION IN NEED OF CHANGE

The future of Kenya is in a precarious balance, writes Michael Mundia Kamau. There is little consolation in the anticipated resumption of donor funding. The country's problems go beyond government and are about a people with no direction and no will to change.

Economic policies, democratisation and investment inflow in Nigeria

As political democracy is strengthened with economic democracy, the need for government intervention to ensure the proper functioning of free markets and to deal with tendencies towards instability will increase not decrease. Markets will guide government, and economic policies will guide the markets in a dynamic interaction that should only increase our well being, writes Dennis Odife.

Africa's Crisis of Governance

The main cause of bad governance in African nations is not the ignorance of African leaders or inadequate infrastructure but the control of the state by predator elites argues Tunde Obadina

The Way Forward for Africa

Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, former Nigerian foreign minister, urges Africans to take the initiative in defining African problems and defining African solutions to those problems.