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legislators’ salaries
Annual compensation of members of parliament in US dollars: Nigeria 224,000 United States 174,000 Kenya 157,000 South Africa 66,080 Uganda 39,960 Ghana 33,120 The disparities are mind-boggling. It is a...
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sunday roundup
Easterly goes to church in Ghana. This post has pictures on some interesting way to use bed nets…. It seems like the only way we shall ever eliminate malaria on the Continent is by getting rid of all...
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second hand clothes
Thanks to a view from the cave I just found out that there is an Oxfam study out there on the effects of second hand clothes (SHC) in the African markets. The findings are largely predictable: the poor...
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Africa’s budding narco-states?
UPDATE: The Kenyan Prime Minister just admitted to the presence of drug money in Kenyan politics. Huge. Also, check the UNODC’s drug trafficking patterns for East Africa. Also, does anyone out there...
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Another African country strikes black gold, in massive amounts
UPDATE: The office of the president in Uganda is saying that the oil around Lake Albert may be double what was initially thought. According to Bloomberg: ” Uganda may hold deposits of as many as 6...
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Reason for African Petro-Rulers to be Worried
Africa’s petrorulers (heads of state of Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Nigeria, South Sudan, and Sudan) may be headed for tough times later this year....
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Atta Mills, President of Ghana, is dead
The BBC reports: Ghana’s President [John Atta Mills], who was suffering from throat cancer, has died in the capital, Accra. A statement from his office said the 68-year-old died a few hours after being...
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In which I write about Africa’s emerging drug problem
The globalization of terrorism over the last decade has created a situation in which the number one threat to international security is no longer strong, conquering states, but failing ones that...
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The state of the web
Internet access still relatively costliest in Africa. source: This is Africa I would argue, though, that in the case of Africa even as costs come down relative to per capita income, the latter has to...
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Penpals: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
I just came across this fascinating letter that Karl Marx wrote to Abraham Lincoln, following the latter’s re-election in 1864. We congratulate the American people upon your re-election by a large...
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Resource sector accountability in Africa: The supply side story
I was recently in Ghana for some preliminary work on an evaluation project that a few colleagues at IPRE Group and I will be working on later this year. On my trip I talked to people engaged in...
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Georgetown MSFS Launches New Africa Scholarship
The application deadline is January 15, 2014. Spread the word. Starting in fall 2014, the Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) at Georgetown University is offering a full- tuition scholarship...
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The 2013 Resource Governance Index
The 2013 Resource Governance Index (published by the Revenue Watch Institute) is out. The top performing African countries include Ghana, Liberia?, Zambia and South Africa, with partial fulfillment....
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Some thoughts on Kenyan MPs and their salaries
Update: Sarah Serem and the SRC appear to be backtracking and are now “open to dialogue” with MPs over their pay. ****************************************** “False standards are set with salary scales...
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Why are some African governments so bad at managing their countries’ resources?
Just to reiterate what I have said before regarding the need to boost the capacity of African governments to manage their resources well, here is a long quote on Vale’s mining operations in Mozambique...
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Africa’s newfound love with creditors: Bond bubble in the making?
I know it is increasingly becoming not kosher to put a damper on the Africa Rising narrative (these guys missed the memo, H/T Vanessa) but here is a much needed caution from Joe Stiglitz and Hamid...
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Why are Kenyan politicians politicizing the military?
Botswana, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe are the only continental sub-Saharan African states to have never experienced military rule. Each country...
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And now onwards with life after fieldwork…
With findings and humility. Filed under: africa, african politics, democracy, News Analysis, Political Economy of Development, Politics, Resources, World affairs Tagged: african legislatures, african...
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Happy Independence Day Ghana!
Ghana is 57 today, having gained independence from the UK on the 6th of March, 1957. Back then the independence of Ghana (named after the historic empire that existed in parts of...
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Africa’s top economies
Yesterday Nigeria unveiled new GDP figures following the rebasing that catapulted the country of 170 million to become Africa’s biggest economy (GDP US$509b). Below is the ranking of the top sixteen...
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