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Image description: Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed As the West continues to bicker over Brexit and impeachment, events in Africa are developing in an increasingly sinister fashion. Perhaps some cynics will overlook this issue. They may point out that conflicts in Africa (or indeed anywhere) over resources are not new. This time feels more […]
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Image description: Yvonne Ike and Dean Peter Tufano The Saïd Business School has announced a new MBA scholarship available for an exceptional African woman. Funded by the Nigerian Adara foundation, the successful candidate will have her living costs and tuition fees covered, and will be expected to demonstrate commitment to improving the socio-economic conditions of […]
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Image Credit: AMISOM Public Information Earlier this month, the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva passed a resolution to prolong the mandate of a UN inquiry into the worsening political, economic, and social crisis in Burundi. The message is clear: The Burundian government cannot go on denying that its security apparatus tolerates and indirectly sanctions […]
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Image Credit: Sergey Pesterev-Description: Mount Kilimanjaro It’s 3am. I’m stumbling uncontrollably. It’s dark, cold and I’m relying entirely on other people to show me where to go. No, I’m not drunk, I’m 5000m or so up the world’s tallest free-standing mountain. Record Scratch. I bet you’re wondering how I got here? Over a year ago, […]
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Image Credit: amarpreet25-Description:Leaking pipe As 2018 began in the South African city of Cape Town, water levels rapidly declined in its reservoirs, marking a continuing trend since a drought began in 2015. In early January, the city issued plans for “Day Zero”, when, if a lower limit of water was reached, the city’s water supply […]
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Image credit: John Cairns/Blavatnik School of Government I recall sitting in my economic development course as an undergraduate. Paul Collier’s acclaimed bestseller, The Bottom Billion, was a classic on our reading lists. Fast forward a year later, I am sitting opposite him in his office at the glass-walled Blavatnik School of Government for an exclusive interview […]
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The Oxford African and Caribbean Society (ACS) has undoubtedly become one of Oxford’s most prolific and vital student-run organisations. Just this April, ACS won The Tab x Bloomberg’s BAME Society of the Year award – a mere nod to the sheer gravity of what all the society has accomplished. The society hosts everything from industry […]
Continue ReadingBalloting for the RAG charities vote which took place last week, closed on Thursday 9th February at 6pm. Oxford Raise and Give supports four charities a year; two national or international, and two local. The charities, chosen in a ballot each year share the profits of RAG’s fundraising activities over the course of the next […]
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Yesterday evening, the former Nigerian president Dr Goodluck Jonathan addressed the Oxford Union to speak about education and business reform during his presidency. When the floor opened for questions, he was asked about poverty in Nigerian and government corruption, gender disparity, the criminalisation of same-sex marriage, and western and Chinese influences in Africa. In his […]
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“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well you do not stand in one place” Chinua Achebe “Do they know it’s Christmas?” Well of course they bloody do. They’ll probably go to Church, and then spend the day with their families. I find the return of Geldof’s fundraising wonder song […]
Continue ReadingDuring summer 2009, I watched the latest Harry Potter film in a cushy cinema in one of Nairobi’s shopping complexes, at the end of a trip around Kenya with a group from school. This experience sticks in my memory as a reminder of how connected Kenya’s capital can be with the West. Thus it was […]
Continue ReadingGeorgia Luscombe tells us why Godfrey Bloom’s ‘Bongo Bongo’ comments were not only insensitive, they also demonstrated how naive the UKIP mindset is when it comes to foreign aid.
Continue Reading[yop_poll id=”6″] Proposition – Tyler Overton Here are some facts about injustice: according to UNICEF’s 2012 report on child mortality, 1 in 9 children in Sub-Saharan Africa die before age five (as opposed to 1 in 152 in developed regions). Over a billion people still live on less than pound a day. And, more […]
Continue ReadingThe BBC’s nature programmes have never had the most detailed titles – The Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Frozen Planet – and its new offering Africa is no exception. The idea seems to be to give audiences the barest idea of what they are tuning in for, allowing the programme-makers to paint on the largest canvas […]
Continue ReadingCharles Walmsley looks at the favourites for this year’s African Cup of Nations: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Senegal and Morocco
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