It’s May Day today, but we still have some work to do. To the coalface we go. Is the ghost of the IMF’s past back …
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The emperor gets a new wardrobe
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently had 40 African leaders donned in his signature raw silk kurtas (aka Modi ja…
The Fairtrade Façade
“Trade not aid” – if you’ve been paying attention to the discourse on how to improve living standards for the world’s po…
Film Africa (2): ‘When China Met Africa’
Bleeding, splintering, RGB pixels paint repeated images of handshakes and embraces — filmed off a television scree…
Canada likes Africa’s “new image”
After spending its first six years in power largely ignoring the continent, the Conservative Party of Canada has finally…
The geo-branding war
Geo-branding is a serious thing. It is particularly serious when people from other geographic areas decide to brand your…