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Africa needs to trade with itself: East Africa shows it can be done
GEOPOLITICS

Africa is underpricing its diplomatic power

Beyond natural resources, Africa's ultimate geopolitical asset lies in the collective power of its 1.5 billion people and global diaspora. Discover how the continent can better…

  • Kofi Bediako
7 min read
External demand: Minerals must do more than leave the continent as raw materials. They must also support industrialisation, technology transfer, skills development, energy access and economic transformation. Photo: Open Society
AFRICA CHINA RELATIONS

The problem is not China; it’s Africa

A Zimbabwean expert argues that Africa's approach to China regarding critical minerals is outdated, rooted in Cold War politics and anti-colonial solidarity. The article contends…

  • Kofi Bediako
6 min read
Results following the vote in the General Assembly on the resolution declaring the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and the Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime Against Humanity. Photo: UN Photo/Manuel Elías
AFRICAN UNION

Beyond “Africans sold Africans”: What Ghana’s UN slavery motion demands

Almost immediately after the vote, critics in Ghana and beyond have argued that Africans, having participated in the slave trade, cannot frame it as the gravest crime against…

  • Kofi Bediako
7 min read
Ghana’s former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings, who died last month at the age of 77, was the matriarch of Ghanaian women’s empowerment. (Wikimedia Commons)
OPINION

Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings: The First Lady Who Refused to Be Ceremonial

Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings fought till the end. In refusing to be ceremonial, she left a nation forever altered by her determination to make women visible, vocal, and…

  • Kofi Bediako
5 min read