The Africa Briefing Podcast

The West cannot force Africa to decriminalise LGBTQ

I can’t get my head round western nations trying use their economic muscle to coerce African countries to relax laws against LGBTQ. It is very paternalistic

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a well-qualified new leader for the WTO

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's appointment as the new Director-General of the WTO v [https://link.cfr.org/click/22967586.637/aHR0cHM6Ly9jYS5maW5hbmNlLnlhaG9vLmNvbS9maW5hbmNlL3ZpZGVvL3BsdXMtYWZyaWNhLW5pZ2VyaWFucy1yZWFjdC13dG8tMTQwMDE0OTMyLmh0bWw_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1ibG9nbm90aWZpY2F0aW9u/5f295f44f873075fd90866d1B3f14e457]alidates the competence and leadership skills of African women

Joe Biden's Africa strategy

The United States will never be able to compete with the Chinese on financing large-scale infrastructure, subsidising private industry, or even the whole-of-government approach that Beijing brings to its diplomacy in Africa.  Instead, the U.S. should build on the  areas where it has an advantage over the Chinese

Trump's rhetoric toward Ethiopia is dangerous and indicative of a larger problem

Presient Trump has urged  Egypt to blow up Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam, saying “They should have stopped it long before it was started.”

#EndSars protests in Nigeria

Nigerian youth have learnt that two decades of democratic rule have brought scant change.