Essays on Africa

Let’s have a talk on the agbada challenge, shall we? So Falz, the famous music crooner cum Comedian-Actor in collaboration with the charismatic Richard Mofe Damijo, AY the comedian, bad boy Jim Iyke and fine-faced Ramsey Noah rose up to a challenge from Alex_unusual (Big…

The most notable supportive policy development that has opened up possibilities for small and medium power producers is the advent of feed-in-tariffs. The REFiT offers investors pre-determined rates for various sources and technologies with an objective to promote the uptake of renewables and promote smaller…

By law, smallholders are required to sell their coffee through local growing cooperatives, who then pass the coffee to millers for processing and grading. For decades, coffee milling was managed by five mills, including the Kenya Planters Cooperative Union (KPCU) the largest mill. The mills…

The nature of underlying traditional political values is a factor that contributes to Africa’s journey to democracy. It is probable that the more habitual political qualities joining with governmental standards concerning administration, the more potential there would be to transform the democratic position of Africa….

The story itself is one that many grew up with. It is a story which has been told numerous times where it has led to different variations of it. Regardless of the different variations of the story it can be said that its prophecies led…

The nature of crime in the apartheid era South Africa can be directed to the colonial forces that were in power. This has been rooted in the notion that violence in South Africa has become normative rather than deviant and it has come to be…

Language is intricately bound up with culture. It is an expressive product of culture that performs diverse functions to facilitate communicative interaction. Idiomatic expressions functions as one of these communicative interactions. This essay investigates one such idiom in its distinct cultural identity. This is done…

Zambia being one of the developing countries has a number of strategies to enable her reach a certain level of standard of living. Poverty has been a serious disease in Zambia and many strategies where put across to see to it that poverty is reduced….

This article discusses how South Africa increase tariff on Brazilian sugar from $566 per ton to $680 per ton, in order to protect local farmer in South Africa. Tariff is defined as the taxes on imported goods. Comparative advantage is defined as a situation when…

Growing up in Nigeria, mental illness has always had such a massive taboo against it as the problem isn’t physical. However, I believe that the mind is just as important as the body and that both must be in good condition to live a full…