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Baobab Africa People and Economy reports the continent majorly from a positive slant. We celebrate the continent. Not for us the negatives that undermine the African real story of challenging but inspiring growth.

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Contextualizing Obama’s visit to Africa

In recent years, the United States has increasingly been sidelined in areas of deep economic transformation in Africa because US engagement with Africa ...

By Baobab AfricaApril 2, 20130

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Nelson Mandela: A walk well walked

Hannatu Musawa pays tribute to ailing Nelson Mandela, liberationist and perhaps, the most important personality of our era. Nelson Mandela is ageing and ...

By Baobab AfricaApril 1, 20130

Editorial

Protest against President Obama in South Africa is justified

When President Barrack Obama visited Ghana for a few hours in 2009, he blamed African leaders and exonerated imperialism for the underdevelopment of the African ...

By Baobab AfricaFebruary 19, 20130

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War, terror, catastrophe: Profiting from 'Disaster Capitalism'

By PAUL B. FARRELL Hot tip: Invest in “Disaster Capitalism.” This new investment sector is the core of the emerging “new economy” that ...

By Baobab AfricaNovember 1, 20120

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African growth with Asian characteristics

African governments are now turning instead to Asia as a partner in development, writes Amit Jain. Prime Minister Luc Adolph Tiao of ...

By Baobab AfricaOctober 1, 20120

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Nigeria and the complicated formula of Beer Math

Nigeria is a very complicated formula of various people fated together like Beer Math. By HANNATU MUSAWA Here’s a conundrum for you: Firstly, ...

By Baobab AfricaAugust 3, 20120

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Chinua Achebe – Troubling awards and failed leadership

If awards could improve national security, wipe off mass poverty and reduce massive unemployment, writers would probably become happy recipients of the Nigerian ...

By Baobab AfricaAugust 2, 20120

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Social media may be Africa’s graveyard

Africa should be wary of the entrapments of social media. Contrary to popular claim of the positive impact of social media, it could ...

By Baobab AfricaJuly 7, 20120

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Moving Nigeria away from failing and failure

As boy in the 1960’s and very early 1970’s, I used to sit and watch the Super tankers at Anglesey in Wales, filled ...

By Baobab AfricaJuly 1, 20120

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The butchers of Nigeria

Over the past year, Nigeria’s homegrown terror group Boko Haram has escalated its deadly attacks against Christian and government targets, with the aim ...

By Baobab AfricaJuly 1, 20120

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Disaster Capitalism swoops over Libya: The new colonization of Africa

By PEPE ESCOBAR Think of the new Libya as the latest spectacular chapter in the Disaster Capitalism series. Instead of weapons of mass ...

By Baobab AfricaJuly 1, 20120

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'Disaster Capitalism' What does it mean to Africa?

By NWAKANMA CHIKA How does the bombing of a church in northern Nigeria by some illiterate Boko Haram suicide bomber relate to the ...

By Baobab AfricaJuly 1, 20120

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Contextualizing Obama’s visit to Africa

Nelson Mandela: A walk well walked

Protest against President Obama in South Africa is justified

War, terror, catastrophe: Profiting from 'Disaster Capitalism'

African growth with Asian characteristics

Nigeria and the complicated formula of Beer Math

Chinua Achebe – Troubling awards and failed leadership

Social media may be Africa’s graveyard

Moving Nigeria away from failing and failure

The butchers of Nigeria

Disaster Capitalism swoops over Libya: The new colonization of Africa

'Disaster Capitalism' What does it mean to Africa?

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