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Creating a model country for Africa, with a healthy economy, and honest, healthy democratic government.
04/19/2007
The efforts in Ghana. How Nigeria and Kenya, the two other places wioth a British past fall short, with corruption, governance along tribal lines, and flawed elections. The related efforts to promote agricultural improvement, and help the farmers of Africa.
Grouped Articles
Zambia's Leader Hands Over Power
Wall Street Journal 09.24.2011
An Accidental Leader Stirs Hopes in Nigeria
New York Times 02.20.2010
Ghana Court Rejects Challenge to President's Election
Wall Street Journal 08.30.2013
Nigeria Finance Cleanup Gains Momentum
Wall Street Journal 08.06.2010
Nigeria's doughty presidential candidate: Mr Anti-Corruption joins the fray
Economist 10.30.2010
Long-Delayed Vote Takes Place in Ivory Coast
New York Times 10.31.2010
Nigerian Central Bank Governor Ousted
Wall Street Journal 02.21.2014
Nigeria's Oil Revenue Faces an Accounting
Wall Street Journal 04.13.2014
Nigeria’s Tumbling Currency a Victim of Falling Oil Prices
Wall Street Journal 12.03.2014
Nigeria Votes in Sharply Contested Presidential Election
New York Times 03.28.2015
Muhammadu Buhari Defeats Goodluck Jonathan in Nigeria Election
Wall Street Journal 04.01.2015
In Nigeria’s Election, Muhammadu Buhari Defeats Goodluck Jonathan
New York Times 03.31.2015
Muhammadu Buhari, a Familiar, and Now Less Divisive, Choice in Nigerian Election
New York Times 03.31.2015
Nigeria Is a Case Study in the Curse of Oil
Wall Street Journal 04.03.2015
Share the Pork, Be President for Life
New York Times 03.29.2015
Obama in Kenya: An Upbeat Tone, but Notes of Discord, Too
New York Times 07.25.2015
Wall Street Journal 07.28.2015
Nigeria President Escalates Campaign to Stem Corruption
New York Times 10.16.2015
How to steal yet another election
Economist 04.19.2007
Nigerian Vote Could Fan Further Unrest
Wall Street Journal 04.23.2007
Colonial-Era Ties to Africa Face a Reckoning in France
Wall Street Journal 05.16.2007
Observers Call Election In Nigeria Deeply Flawed
Wall Street Journal 04.23.2007
Total Taps Africa's Oil Reserves In Bid to Outdo Rivals' Growth
Wall Street Journal 05.22.2007
In Nigeria's Violent Delta, Hostage Negotiators Thrive
Wall Street Journal 06.07.2007
Nigeria Wants Bigger Slice Of Revenue From Its Oil
Wall Street Journal 10.25.2007
China Shows High Interest in African Oil
Wall Street Journal 11.22.2007
China's ICBC To Buy Stake In African Firm
Wall Street Journal 02.04.2008
Nigeria's Oil-Export Reliability at Risk
Wall Street Journal 02.11.2008
New York Times 03.18.2008
Wall Street Journal 03.21.2008
Finance Ministers Emphasize Food Crisis Over Credit Crisis
New York Times 04.14.2008
In Africa, Outages Stifle a Boom
Wall Street Journal 04.17.2008
Nigeria Confronts Shell, Exxon
Wall Street Journal 05.21.2008
Communities Pay for High Prison Rate
Wall Street Journal 07.10.2008
World Bank Finds More People Live in Steep Poverty
New York Times 08.27.2008
Henry Ford's Detroit Neighborhood Tries Hard to Keep Up Appearances
Wall Street Journal 09.11.2008
Development Doesn't Require Big Government
Wall Street Journal 10.03.2008
Post-Apartheid South Africa Enters Anxious Era
New York Times 10.06.2008
Africa's Potential to Sate World's Oil Demand Dims
Wall Street Journal 10.22.2008
A Time to Reap for Foot Soldiers of Civil Rights
New York Times 11.05.2008
Congo Unrest Disrupts Critical Mine Reforms
Wall Street Journal 11.13.2008
Kay Hymowitz - An Enduring Crisis for the Black Family
Washington Post 12.06.2008
Ghana Votes With Key Status at Stake
Wall Street Journal 12.08.2008
South African Companies Unlock Sub-Saharan Africa
BusinessWeek 12.04.2008
Battle in a Poor Land for Riches Beneath the Soil
New York Times 12.15.2008
Can Africa Trade Its Way to Peace?
New York Times 12.16.2008
West African Villagers Stake Their Fortunes on the Future Price of Rice
New York Times 01.26.2009
Swarm of Caterpillars Infests West Africa, Menacing Crops
New York Times 02.06.2009
Goree Island Journal: The Evil that was Done
New York Times 02.19.2009
B. J. Ndiaye, Curator of Landmark in Slave Trade, Dies at 86
New York Times 02.19.2009
Persian Gulf States Bet on Africa Despite Downturn
Wall Street Journal 02.23.2009
South Africa GDP Ends a Rising Streak
Wall Street Journal 02.25.2009
Nigeria, Shell Plan $1.6 Billion Gas Project In Volatile Delta Hit by Production Halts
Wall Street Journal 02.24.2009
Starvation and Strife Menace Torn Kenya
New York Times 03.01.2009
Crisis Reaching Poorest Nations, IMF Says
Wall Street Journal 03.04.2009
Wall Street Journal 03.04.2009
World Bank Says Global Economy Will Shrink in ’09
New York Times 03.09.2009
Economist 02.26.2009
2 West Africa Slayings May Signal a New Day
New York Times 03.10.2009
Waiting to Helm South Africa: President or Convict? Or Both?
New York Times 03.11.2009
Manufacturing: The Rise of the Maghreb
BusinessWeek 03.05.2009
Nigeria Growth Falters on Oil Slide, Global Crisis
Wall Street Journal 03.12.2009
Wall Street Journal 03.17.2009
Untried Soldier Carries the Weight of Guinea’s Desperate Hopes
New York Times 03.19.2009
Zambia's Economy Falls With Price of Copper
Wall Street Journal 03.26.2009
As Chinese Investment in Africa Drops, Hope Sinks
New York Times 03.26.2009
Study Finds Pattern of Severe Droughts in Africa
New York Times 04.17.2009
Economist 04.16.2009
Economist 04.16.2009
Wall Street Journal 04.18.2009
South African Voters Grumble, but Favor A.N.C.
New York Times 04.22.2009
Pressure Rises for ANC to Deliver on Promises
Wall Street Journal 04.27.2009
Nigeria Moves to Address Chronic Power Outages
Wall Street Journal 04.24.2009
Wall Street Journal 04.24.2009
Economist 04.23.2009
In a Senegalese Slum, a Building Material Both Primitive and Perilous
New York Times 05.03.2009
New South African Leader Emphasizes Continuity in Cabinet Lineup
New York Times 05.11.2009
Zuma Creates Agency to Coordinate National Policy
Wall Street Journal 05.11.2009
Who will call the economic shots?
Economist 05.14.2009
For Somalia, Chaos Breeds Religious War
New York Times 05.24.2009
Economist 05.21.2009
Not a whiff of corruption is allowed
Economist 05.21.2009
What Will Happen When the Baobab Goes Global?
New York Times 05.26.2009
Bring Zimbabwe in From the Cold
New York Times 05.28.2009
Wall Street Journal 06.04.2009
Battle to Halt Graft Scourge in Africa Ebbs
New York Times 06.10.2009
Crisis Forces South Africa to Trim Agenda
Wall Street Journal 06.13.2009
France's Colonial Ties to Africa Are Fraying
Wall Street Journal 06.16.2009
Ex-Zambian Leader’s High Life Awaits a Verdict
New York Times 06.22.2009
South Africa Lenders Fight With Bad Debts
Wall Street Journal 06.24.2009
Constant Fear and Mob Rule in South Africa Slum
New York Times 06.30.2009
Nation in Disarray Holds Few Hopes for Vote
New York Times 06.28.2009
Foreign Investment Cushions Downturn in Africa
Wall Street Journal 06.27.2009
Obama Enlists Major Powers to Aid Poor Farmers With $15 Billion
New York Times 07.09.2009
A Housing Market Built on Mud Takes Off, and Then Goes Thud
Wall Street Journal 07.09.2009
New York Times 07.10.2009
G-8 Stumbles Anew, Comes Up Short on Food Aid
Wall Street Journal 07.10.2009
Africa Trip Highlights Obama's Challenges
Wall Street Journal 07.11.2009
Obama Wins More Food Aid but Presses African Nations on Corruption
New York Times 07.11.2009
Obama's Trip to Ghana Inspires Envy in Nigeria
Washington Post 07.12.2009
Obama Delivers Call for Change to a Rapt Africa
New York Times 07.12.2009
Poverty Could Imperil the Amnesty in Niger Delta
New York Times 11.27.2009
A High-Wire Act for Nigeria's Oil Minister
BusinessWeek 09.16.2010
Wall Street Journal 10.26.2010
Africa's natural resources: Spread the wealth
Economist 02.12.2011
Nigeria's business capital: A rare good man
Economist 05.07.2011
Nigeria's successful elections: Democracy 1, vote-rigging 0
Economist 04.16.2011
Nigeria's elections: They may even be democratic
Economist 04.09.2011
Traffic Drives Nigerians Nuts, but a Trip to a Shrink May Go Too Far
Wall Street Journal 07.27.2011
In West Africa, Democracy Struggles to Survive
New York Times 07.29.2011
Keeping Petrodollars Out of Despots’ Pockets
BusinessWeek 08.25.2011
Mayor Bloomberg Confronts Occupy Wall Street
New York Times 11.15.2011
Odumegwu Ojukwu, Leader of Breakaway Republic of Biafra, Dies at 78
New York Times 11.26.2011
In an African Dynamo's Expansion, the Perils of Prosperity
Wall Street Journal 12.30.2011
Nigeria’s subsidies: End them at once!
Economist 12.31.2011
The African National Congress Turns 100
New York Times 01.08.2012
Nigerian Protests Widen, Pressuring President
Wall Street Journal 01.13.2012
Nigeria's President Fights for His Political Survival
BusinessWeek 02.09.2012
South Africans Suffer as Graft Saps Social Services
New York Times 02.18.2012
In Nigeria, a Preview of an Overcrowded Planet
New York Times 04.14.2012
In Nigeria, Rising Dreams of Web Commerce
Wall Street Journal 06.03.2012
President Credited in Ghana's Growth Dies
Wall Street Journal 07.25.2012
John Atta Mills, Ghanaâs President, Dies, 68
New York Times 07.24.2012
Ghana's Incumbent Leader Wins Election
Wall Street Journal 12.10.2012
Nigeria's Promise, Africa's Hope
New York Times 01.15.2011
Democracy in South Africa: A step backwards
Economist 02.12.2011
On Eve of Vote, Fragile Valley in Kenya Faces New Divisions
New York Times 03.02.2013
Narrow Victory Seen in Kenya Presidential Race
Wall Street Journal 03.09.2013
Ghana electing next president, parliament | News | DW.COM | 07.12.2016
DW.COM 12.07.2016
Opinion: 'Marshall Plan with Africa' creates enormous expectations | Germany | DW.COM | 18.01.2017
DW.COM 01.18.2017
President Buhari Returns to Nigeria, Facing Serious Challenges
The New York Times 08.21.2017
Kenya Votes in Controversial Election Rerun
WSJ 10.26.2017
Young, Urban and Poor: Africans Fight Back
WSJ 02.05.2019
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