The Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was adopted on 21 March 2019. The AfCFTA has the potential to radically change the continent’s development trajectory and transform the continent into a global powerhouse. It builds on initiatives…
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the extent to which the world has become interconnected. With the virus starting in Wuhan, China in November 2019, it has quickly spread across the world. It has exposed a heavy reliance on Chinese suppliers…
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has already infected almost 35,000 people in 52 African countries, resulting in more than 1,500 deaths, is undoubtedly a grave humanitarian challenge. As COVID-19 spreads around the globe, its adverse impact on human productivity is becoming…
Introduction All court systems globally are facing the same challenge in dispensing justice during the COVID-19 Pandemic. For the first time since the Spanish Flu, the U.S. Supreme Court has postponed all hearings and has shut down operations until further…
The population of Africa has been growing by an average of 2.5% over the last 20 years and is projected to double to nearly 2.5 billion people by 2050. As the world’s most rapidly urbanisingcontinent, the proportion of Africans living…
Economic integration has long been understood to be a strategy worth pursuing as a meansto improve the trade performance and economic development of African countries. The second half of Africa’s 20th century saw two key movements that immutably impacted the…
Creative industries include entertainment and media industries such as arts and culture, literature, performing arts, publishing, and broadcasting as well as innovation and design industries such as architecture, engineering, software, and research and development. The creative economy has both cultural…
Access to Electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Access to adequate and reliable energy is critical to the functioning of any modern economy. Economic productivity is understandably linked to the ability to do work with electrical energy contributing massively to the…
