Billion Faces of Africa
My book Africa Rising: How 900 Million Consumers Offer More Than You Think was released in late 2008. In the preface of that book I wrote: I am not a …
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Empowerment mantra: ‘21st century belongs to African women’
It’s time not just for Africa, but African women to shine and prosper. With more women rising up the political and corporate ladder in the continent, Cherie Blair, the wife …
Read MoreA Moving Tribute to Africa’s Most Wounded City
Ancient towns like Mogadishu, Timbuktu and Aleppo were thriving towns on important trade routes for centuries, and all of them have borne the devastating impact of modern day warfare in …
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Land grab? Let’s sift facts from hidden agendas
The recent spate of misinformation that Ethiopians are pushed off their lands because of commercial farming investment from countries like India has been fed by strident “land grab” campaigners, which …
Read MoreThe five trends powering Africa’s enduring allure
Over the course of the past decade, Africa has fundamentally reconstituted its role in the global economy. Emerging from the periphery, African economies, today, are increasingly integral cogs in a …
Read MoreUnleashing 2 billion dreams of India & Africa
In 2006 the Indian Express claimed in its editorial that India is sleep walking in Africa. The reference to this editorial since it was published has been overused and in some cases …
Read MoreDarfur Diary: Lost in a Maze of Fact and Fiction
Flying from the Sudanese capital Khartoum to the mineral-rich western province of Darfur, the seat of an unfolding humanitarian crisis, is like travelling into another country and time zone. A …
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Rising India and Resurgent Africa: It’s Time to Tango
In times of distress, hope springs in the most unusual places. Just when the developed world, specially the eurozone, is reeling from the blowback of the festering global recession, a …
Read MoreRetracing Roots, Creating Identity
Neera Kapur-Dromson, a fourth-generation Kenyan of Indian origin, has wrestled with kindred issues of identity, roots, cultural clashes and self-creation as long as she can remember. An Odissi dancer, who …
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