Carlos Lopes, Africa is the future of the world, Rethinking development, Paris, Seuil, 2021. How should Africa envisage its future when the development model embodied by the West seems, today, to have reached a dead end? This is the question that Carlos Lopes answers in his book. In the preface, Alain Soupiot, honorary professor at...
Aminata DIABY Doctoral student in international economic law – University of Burgundy I The beginnings of African integration The time has come for the endogenous development of the African continent. Institutional, economic and environmental development is necessary in order to promote the growth of the African continent on the international scene. Africa has the...
Manga KUOH Economist and international relations specialist Former international civil servant at the World Bank and the IMF Introduction The creation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) [1] by the Heads of State and Government meeting in Kigali on March 21, 2018, was intended to be a high point in the Agenda...
Mathurin DOUMBE EPEE Chairman of the Board of Directors of Société Générale Cameroon I read with great interest the article by my friend Manga KUOH whose service allows for an informed opinion on the FTAA. I largely share his opinion on various points developed on the economic dimension of the FTAA, while being more...
Bitter News from “Eternally Developing” Places, by Jean-Pierre Listre François-Xavier Akono, a Cameroonian Jesuit priest, gives us a series of bittersweet chronicles of trying realities, around little people whose way out one day is not very clear. First of all his style: he writes in small incisive sentences, sometimes “poetic” but precise, never practicing melodramatic...
Africa & Post-Covid-19 Africa's challenges in the present, the consequences of yesterday's Africa, and the prospects for post-Covid-19 Africa. Read the report
Kako Nubukpo, Editions Odile Jacob; September 2019; 236 pages; €22.90, Professor Kako Nubukpo is an economist (with a sensitive historian’s tropism) and a renowned academic. He was Minister in charge of Prospective and Evaluation of Public Policies in Togo (2013-2015). His past experiences and a certain disenchantment inspired his recent book “L’Urgence africaine; changeons le...
Africa is a paradoxical continent, it has important energy resources (oil and gas, hydro and solar energy potential) and yet a significant part of its population suffers from energy scarcity. What solutions can Africans find to get out of this situation? It is useful to take stock of this issue which has been on the...
“Africa in the face of waste management” ephemeral work of art, anonymous, 2010. Among the evils that affect the global ecosystem and from which the African environment is no exception, the overexploitation of resources leading to deforestation, pollution of rivers, air and soil, all accompanied by the rapid and large-scale disappearance of wildlife through the...