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Oct 21, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Charles Onyango-Obbo |Mordecai Gisanura
In a few weeks we shall be in 2025, and begin closing the first quarter of what optimists predicted would be an African Century. The idea that the 21st century could be “Africa’s century” was pushed by various African and global leaders, but one of the most prominent figures to popularise the phrase was Thabo Mbeki, former President of South Africa.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Charles Onyango-Obbo |Mordecai Gisanura |Lonzen Rugira
In Part I, the author argued that Africa’s giants are structurally dysfunctional. In Part II, he argues that it is a crime to try to help them out of this crisis. In 2009, a remarkable development took place. The President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame and then DRC President, Joseph Kabila, met and agreed to work together to neutralise the FDLR. This marked a significant change in the circumstances that had led to two regional wars in the Great Lakes region in the late 1990s.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Charles Onyango-Obbo |Mordecai Gisanura |Lonzen Rugira
The West’s control over Africa largely relies on the creation and maintenance of ‘anchor states’ – African countries that champion Western interests on the continent. Any country that resists this anchoring is considered a “rogue state”. For Africa to regain strategic autonomy, it must create its own anchor states to steer regional blocs in line with its own interests.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Charles Onyango-Obbo |Mordecai Gisanura
“The $20 billion refinery investment, spearheaded by Aliko Dangote, highlights Nigeria’s commitment to expanding its fossil fuel industry at a time when global climate discussions are increasingly focused on transitioning away from fossil fuels.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Charles Onyango-Obbo |Mordecai Gisanura
In the first episode of The Pan African Review Weekly Podcast Africa Aspirations, our panelists Lonzen Rugira, David Hundeyin and Levi Kabwato, hosted by Fola Folayan, discuss the recent China-Africa summit and its implications.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Charles Onyango-Obbo |Mordecai Gisanura
For decades, Africa has clamoured for a seat on the United Nation’s Permanent Security Council, the organ that wields the most power in the organisation, with little success. The exclusion of Africa was seen as colonial, and antiquated, in a very different world where the continent with 18% of the world had no real clout. Four of the five permanent members with veto power – China.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Charles Onyango-Obbo |Mordecai Gisanura |David Hundeyin
“This is a project that will showcase the American model of development.”These were the words of US ambassador to Angola, Tulinabo Mushingi, when he spoke to the Financial Times on the subject of a new $10bn US-funded rail investment in the country.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Charles Onyango-Obbo |Mordecai Gisanura
Last week, Egyptian President Abdelfattah el-Sisi visited Ankara to meet his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in what was billed as a landmark trip to cement a new détente between the two Mediterranean states. Relations between Turkey and Egypt have been warming in recent months following attempts by both sides to repair a decade-long fractured relationship.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Charles Onyango-Obbo |Mordecai Gisanura
In June, Toyota launched the fifth generation of its Land Cruiser Prado in the South African market. In its first two months, nearly 1,000 units were sold! This is extremely good for a car with a starting price of US$73,000.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
panafricanreview.com | Charles Onyango-Obbo |Mordecai Gisanura |Chinaecherem Thankgod Ugwu |Mohamed Omer
In a highly anticipated televised address to the country on the evening of 28 July 2024, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced sweeping economic reforms. The announcement was the culmination of years of economic policy changes since he took office in 2018, aimed at tackling entrenched economic challenges such as debt, inflation, unemployment and low productivity.
