Barack Obama’s visit to Ghana this weekend is being interpreted by many as a willingness to turn a new page on Africa. Unlike other American presidents, Obama was the first to visit Africa before taking office. He was 26 when he first visited...

There are those who do not believe the activities in Zimbabwe and prefer to detract instead on the written word.. That is their right. I am not going to write otherwise, although I might ask the writer to not just take one article and place it out...

Good guerrillas often make indifferent democrats. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe may be the clearest proof that the very qualities that make an effective insurgent army — discipline, secrecy, command authority and a limit on dissent —...

Democracy has taken few steps backwards in Africa. The glorious years were in the 1990s when many nations on the continent went democratic. But in the last few years there seems to be a regression. Kenya, Zimbabwe and Nigeria come to mind....