Bashir’s Sudanese Cash Pile – What, You Mean A Dictator Was Corrupt?
Our word isn't this a real surprise? And a turn up for the books. It's turns out that Omar al-Bashir, the dictator of Sudan,...
Tanzania’s Magufuli – Rightly – Won’t Let The IMF Publish Economic Report
Tanzania's President, John Magufuli, won't allow the International Monetary Fund to publish their usual report on the economy of that country. Quite rightly too...
Strive Masiyiwa Is Right, Zimbabwe Should Price In SA Rand – Anything But Zim$
The precise details of this call for Zimbabwean businesses to price in South African Rand, put forward by Strive Masiyiwa, might not be entirely...
Musuveni Demands Uganda Remain Poor – Go Slow On New Technologies He Says
Yoweri Musuveni doesn't seem to understand how a place gets richer - through the adoption of new technologies. Given that he's President of Uganda...
Zimbabwe’s Not Compensating Farmers For Land – Only For Improvements
Not that we ever expected those white farmers to receive proper and fully legal compensation for the land that was confiscated under Mugabe. But...
What’s Wrong With Ghana’s Economy – Only 2% Of Employment Is In Formal Sector
We may or may not want to take as precisely accurate this estimate of the employment in Ghana's formal economy - only 2%. This...
Price Fixing Always Leads To Scams – Zimbabwe’s Nedbank Latest To Suffer
Us humans are pretty simple to understand - we respond to incentives. This being something that those who govern us don't want to grasp...
Zimbabwe’s Colonial Legal System – Wigs And Fair Trials And Juries
It is indeed more than a little absurd that Zimbabwe has just spent some £118,000 pounds on wigs for the judges in their legal...
Fair Complaint, Zimbabwe Is Ripping Off The Tobacco Farmers
We can talk about killing the golden goose, we can use the more formal economic terms of having short term preferences, we can even...
Zimbabwe’s VP Goes Beserk And Attacks Wife With Axe, Takes Cars
Foreign countries are, well, they're foreign, as we understand with this story from Zimbabwe. The current Vice President, Kembo Mohadi, has apparently turned up...