Thursday, September 30, 2010Do Not Underestimate Nigerian Resilience and Resolveby Dr. Robin Renee Sanders, Africa.com Featured Blogger[October 1, 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's independence. To celebrate this historic date, Africa.com welcomes our newest "featured blogger," Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders, the former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria.]
Nigeria's next, critically important elections appear to be slated for April 2011. In the months leading up to those elections, there are two key things to keep in mind. I call them the two R’s: Nigeria’s Resilience and Nigeria’s Resolve. Do not underestimate either.
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Nigeria's next, critically important elections appear to be slated for April 2011. In the months leading up to those elections, there are two key things to keep in mind. I call them the two R’s: Nigeria’s Resilience and Nigeria’s Resolve. Do not underestimate either.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010There’s Progress Afoot in Africa – Focusing on the Millennium Development Goals Trailblazers by Ben Leo, Research Fellow for the Center of Global DevelopmentThis week, world leaders are assembling in New York to review progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). If past gatherings are any indication, we can expect to hear countless speeches and media stories about how Sub-Saharan Africa remains woefully off-track and that billions of dollars in new aid packages are required. These types of blanket statements perpetuate the misguided myth that Africa is a monolithic land of depravity and development disappointment. One cannot deny that such localized places exist – such as Somalia or Zimbabwe. However, these hot spots increasingly have become isolated islands of instability on an otherwise surging continent. Let us put aside the African cliché and instead focus our lens on the stars – the MDG Trailblazers.
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Monday, September 20, 2010Unmentionableby Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia Ten years ago, Heads of State from across the world promised “to spare no effort to free their fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty, to which more than a billion of them are currently subjected”. The historic Millennium Declaration was duly adopted and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were established, with the aim of reversing the grinding poverty, hunger and disease affecting billions of people.
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