Impacting the Future: Luvuyo Mandela’s Perspective
“We need to take stock of how far we’ve come, the mistakes we have made and prepare each other to be stronger leaders in tomorrow.”- Luvuyo MandelaAn Inspiration for AfricaDirections: Directions to the...
View ArticleA Lens on Somalia: Security and Development Going Forward
It has been just over one year since the Somalia Federal Government took over from the Transitional Federal Government, marking the end of ‘transition’ in Somalia. However, there are still a number of...
View ArticleGoing the Whole Nine Yards: What Is Needed for an Africa Free of AIDS,...
In conjunction with the Replenishment Conference for the Global Fund, the Africa Program is co-hosting the conference, “Going the Whole Nine Yards: What Is Needed for an Africa Free of AIDS, TB, and...
View ArticleLight at the End of the Tunnel for DRC?
The standing down of rebel group M-23 in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo made international headlines this week. After a short but intense campaign, the National Armed Forces of the DRC...
View ArticleConflict-Sensitive Development for Africa: What Role for Emerging Powers?
The report of the UN High Level Panel on the post-2015 development agenda makes a strong case for any future global development framework to remain sensitive to the symbiotic relationship between peace...
View ArticleMadiba: A Belief in Humanity
I have taken the liberty of using the familiar family name for Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. I do so because the first time we met, sitting together in the back seat of a limo driving from Cape Town...
View ArticleSouth Africa after Mandela: The Legacy and the Reality
Nelson Mandela was one of the most respected political leaders the world has seen for a reason: he helped take South Africa through a remarkable period encompassing the end of apartheid and the first...
View ArticleSouth Africa at 20: Celebrating 20 Years of Freedom and Democracy
This year, South Africa is celebrating 20th anniversary of its first general elections when voters sent Nelson Mandela to the presidency ending the scourge of apartheid. This milestone anniversary is...
View ArticleAfrica's Youth and Innovation Potential for Peacebuilding and Sustainable...
On Thursday, June 26th the Africa Program hosted a panel made up of Ernest Acheampong, a Southern Voices Scholar and Researcher at the African Technology Policy Network, and Sarah Sladen, a Senior...
View ArticleCentral African Republic: Should the World Pay Attention?
As the world focuses on the atrocities of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a far more brutal scenario has been unfolding some 2,500 miles directly south of Damascus. Situated in the...
View ArticleSomalia: A Conversation with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
“It is the duty of my government to prove the skeptics wrong: to lay the foundations for a Federal Republic of Somalia that will be strong, stable, and united, and in which the principles and practices...
View ArticleSomalia: Assessing the First Year of the Federal Government
Panel 2: Governance and Security in Somalia“Somalia has seen too much conflict. It is now demanding new solutions.”- Ambassador Donald TeitelbaumThe Initial Indicators of SuccessDirections: Directions...
View ArticleWe Want What's Ours: Learning from South Africa's Land Restitution Process
We Want What's Ours: Learning from South Africa's Land Restitution ProcessOn June 30, 2014, President Zuma announced the re-opening of the land claims process. In the next round, South Africa must...
View ArticleCountering the Lord’s Resistance Army: A Civilian View from the Field
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