As the year 2011 has passed, it is not out of place to look back at what the internet has meant to Africa’s growing democracy and the effects that will remain for a long time to come. It is turning out that crowdmaps are taking Africa’s election accountability a notch […]

West Africa is swept by many rivers and water bodies that have kept the region irrigated and fertile along many parts of the coast. The Volta River and the Niger River are two large water resources that are sustaining large populations in many different countries. In times past, these two […]

This article was originally drafted by the Society for International Development for the newsletter “GHEA Outlook” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. The currency and inflation crisis and the EAC’s commitment to monetary union offers an opportunity to speculate about some […]

This article was originally drafted by the Centre for Democracy and Development for the newsletter “West Africa Insight” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. The West Africa Transport and Transit Facilitation Strategy of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) […]

The World Bank defines governance as “the exercise of political authority and the use of institutional resources to manage society’s problems and affairs.” As we move forward in the second decade of the 21st century, the question of good governance is particularly important. Defining good governance (a nebulous term) as […]