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Rafiq Raji
Kenyan presidential election re-run must be done right
After being initially declared winner in the 8 August 2017 presidential election with 54 percent of the vote, Uhuru…
Ethnic politics and the 2017 Kenyan elections
Two tight opinion polls on the frontrunners of the 2017 Kenyan presidential election just weeks to the 8 August…
Rebooting Nigerian universities
University lecturers say the Nigerian government owes them at least N128 billion in unpaid allowances. They wonder…
On the African prospects of Islamic finance
I attended an Islamic finance roundtable event in Lagos recently. It was organised by S&P Global Ratings, one…
Why are most African airlines floundering?
The state-owned airline of Africa’s most advanced economy, South African Airways, is about to be bailed out by the…
Ethnic politics and the 2017 Kenyan elections II
· Continued from yesterday.
IEBC must be beyond reproach
With such a tight race, much would depend on…
Ethnic politics and the 2017 Kenyan elections I
Two tight opinion polls on the frontrunners of the 2017 Kenyan presidential election just weeks to the 8 August…
Constitution review is a farce without devolution of…
Power belongs to the people
Devolution of powers, affirmative action for women, greater control of resources,…
Nigeria: Economy is slowly but surely recovering
My forecasts suppose the economy could record positive growth in Q3-2017 but almost certainly in Q4. There are…
South Africa: Economic outlook still calls for caution
Even though the South African economy probably exited recession in the second quarter of the year, the outlook…
So who won at the ANC policy conference?
Irregular; that was what I thought of finance minister Malusi Gigaba’s initial reactions in an interview with…
Lesssons from the Etisalat saga
It came to light in early March that Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services (“EMTS” or “Etisalat Nigeria”),…