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The introduction of an African passport has the capacity to bring about increased migration of Africans within Africa.
Ghana is very much the African rising star 60 years after independence with an exemplary record in health and education. But it’s struggling like many of its peers to meet social and economic targets.
Regional power Ecowas, which has just seen off yet another dictator in Yahya Jammeh, started off with a tame agenda 42 years ago. But it was soon shaped by civil wars, military coups and despots
Outsiders might not understand how someone who led his country’s downfall from breadbasket to basket case has remained in the presidency for so many years
The Non-Aligned Movement member states enjoy cohesion on few issues. Historically, their heterogeneity ranged from absolute monarchs to socialist presidents.
For the revolutionary Frantz Fanon it was not enough to celebrate the achievements of decolonisation. It was necessary to educate, to strain at the limits of national freedom and to provoke debate.
Ghana has often been depicted as one of modern Africa’s success stories. But how different is contemporary Ghana to the vision its founding father Kwame Nkrumah had?
Nobel laureate and Kwame Nkrumah’s economic adviser Arthur Lewis saw Ghana as a testing ground for his ideas on economic development. But he was met with fierce resistance.
Robert Sobukwe developed the philosophy of African nationalism to even higher intellectual heights. The lesson for humanity was his ideological stand that there is only one race - the human race.
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer, Political Science Department, University of Ghana
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Director and Assistant Professor Measurement & Evaluation School of Professional and Extended Studies, American University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Associate research scientist, Universidade de Lisboa
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Lecturer, English Language and Linguistics, University of the West of England
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Professor of Francophone Studies (Africa, Caribbean), Faculty Affiliate with Africana Studies, World Literature Program and Human Rights Pracice, University of Arizona
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, History and Political Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
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Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Emeritus, Princeton University
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Associate Professor in Political Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Department of Philosophy, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor and Director of Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project, Associate Graduate Faculty, Rutgers University
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SARChI Research Chair in Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa, Rhodes University