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Reuters Post-Colonialism: Why the U.S. Should Help Govern South Sudan
We can't fully address the young country's failures with more peacekeepers or a power-sharing deal. Here's why Washington should launch a joint venture with Juba.
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Mali's Crisis, Obama's Opportunity
The West African country has been divided by northern rebels with ties to an al-Qaeda offshoot. Is this a moment for the U.S. to step up?
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Africa's Amazing Rise and What it Can Teach the World
Ten years into the continent's quiet revolution, lessons for the developing world
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An Aging African Leader Whose Time Has Ended
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade's outdated model of governance isn't working for his country.
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Should the World Help Break Up Nigeria in Order to Save it?
Since its unification by the British, the oil-rich African country has endured one crisis after another.
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As Qaddafi Died, So Did His Craziest Dream and Mistake: Pan-Africanism
For decades, he cultivated the idea that Africa is a unified block, in the process helping to entrench the continent's aging leaders and their worst practices
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In New Sub-Saharan Leader, Hints of an African Spring
Newly elected Zambian President Michael Sata is bringing populism and technocratic management to a part of the world that rarely sees either but badly needs both
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Nigeria: Too Big to Fail
From corruption to sectarian division to terrorism, Africa's most populous country (and one of its most oil-rich) could find itself spiraling out of control
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After South Sudan: The Case to Keep Dividing Africa
Sudan has been successfully split into two independent countries. Here's why more African nations should divide, secede, splinter, or otherwise scramble the old colonial borders.
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Obama's Non-Doctrine in Africa
How personal experience, domestic politics, and cautious foreign policy led him to a defensive, vague, and ultimately wise approach to his father's continent
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How France Lost Africa to the U.S.
Francophone African nations are shifting their cultural allegiance from their old colonial master to America, a process that will change both Africa and the West
