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February, 2009 - Catching Up with Africa - Volume 8
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Carnage on the road: Can we get a life-line from the "markets"?
By Edward Kutsoati
Is Morgan Tsvangirayi up to the Task?
Rejoice Ngwenya, February 20 2009, Harare, Zimbabwe
Grand Patterns in the China-Africa Relationship
By Bright B Simons
Is Globalization doomed? June Arunga and Johan Norberg think otherwise
By Franklin Cudjoe
Legal Plunder! —All The President's Men Faulted
By Franklin Cudjoe
Inside Africa: Sectors to watch in 2009
By Bright Simons
Blind Optimism Over Intervention In Banks
By Olusegun Sotola and Kayode Olowookere
Mugabe's ZANUpf Turns liberal?
By Rejoice Ngwenya, Harare, Zimbabwe
Save us from Protection
By Fredrik Erixon & Razeen Sally
The Zimbabwe Development Framework: Rebuilding a Fractured Nation
By Trevor Maisiri
Trevor Maisiri is Executive Director of the African Reform Institute What to do with Africa under Gaddafi
By Franklin Cudjoe
Muammar al-Gaddafi and his African Unity Agenda
By Alhassan Atta-Quayson
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Opinions
June Arunga's introduction to 'In Defense of Global Capitalism' by Johan Norberg
 Globalization is happening. And I think we should welcome it. It's created transfers of skills, access to technology from around the world, and much more. But many have been kept out. The question is why?
Read the introduction here and download the the entire book here. The Global Stimulus And Obama's "Buy American" Analysed
 The Progressive Policy Institute has a rather interesting 'Trade Fact of the Week' on the global picture emerging from the stimulus plan. The PPI warns the Obama administration of the repurcussions of insisting on the American package being spent predominantly on American iron and steel.
Radio Discussion on Nation Building
 Africanliberty.org's editor and IMANI's executive director, Franklin Cudjoe discusses consistency and consensus building in prosecuting governance in Ghana. The discussion was on Ghana's Joy FM, and his co-discussants were, Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, Minister-designate for Communications, Mr. Gabby Otchere-Darko, and Executive of the Danquah Institute and Dr. David Pessey of the Socialist Forum of Ghana. The hour-long discussion begins on Window 10 here
The last week of January 2009 also enhanced IMANI's media profile with its executive director making four appearances on Ghana's premier TV3 Network discussing issues of government transition as well as a discussion on education with Minister-designate for Education , Hon. Alex Tettey Enyo and his opposite number Hon. Baladu Manu. Low Focus on Africa in 2009
Various commentators on Africa are becoming concerned that the continent is being left behind in high level debates on how to salvage the global financial meltdown
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Countries with low traffic fatalities have one thing in common: commercial vehicles run along company lines. This provides a neat way of delegating the task of road safety to the public. Can the market help? 
After months of political battles, Zimbabwe is coming in from the cold, hopefully, not pretending to join the rest of civil international community just to get a breather from the vestiges of Mugabe's plunder. Many observers do not believe the power sharing deal will survive, solely because of Mugabe. Equally worrying is the ability of the Prime Minster, Morgan Tsvangirayi to deliver. 
Sino-African observers should be "poring over Chinese President, Hu Jintao's dinner lists at African State Houses, instead of focusing on the communiqués from negotiations with the Chinese. Is China promising Africa so much as to convince its leaders to misidentify every star for a firefly, and blindly marched themselves into an addiction they are going to struggle very hard to break. Bright Simons asks. 
There is undoubtedly so much economic pain in the world today, just as there has been staggering solutions proffered, not least, by some economic Nobel laureates. For instance, the 2008 Nobel Laureate for Economics, Paul Krugman has said the $780bn stimulus bonanza President Obama got from Congress is way too small to make impact on the American Dream. We at Africanliberty.org do not have all the answers, but there is a young Swedish thinker who has learnt not to sell edicts to governments, and certainly not to poor people! 
It is important for citizens to remind politicians that the decision to lead was not imposed on them. It was theirs to choose. They must spare us any future connivance to plunder our resources. 
Before the commencement of the privatisation of the sector, banks were characterized by large-scale mismanagement. Banks became appendage of political parties depending on whichever was in power. 
There seems to be widespread understanding that tariff barriers would deepen the current recession, as they did in the 30s, but there are many non-tariff forms of protectionism that would be just as bad - President Obama only backed down yesterday from his "Buy America" plan. These well-published authors explain why free trade is the only thing that can save us, rich countries and poor countries, as it has done before. 
This paper outlines a new approach in addressing Public-Private Sector Partnership, community healing & reconciliation, moral values, political development, social services & infrastructure,
Over the past years, especially after the international community accepted him back into the diplomatic arena, Muammar al-Gaddafi has unflinchingly advocated for what could be described as a radical form of the African Union. 
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