Zimbabwe Tries The Venezuela Tactic On Bread Prices – Won’t Work There Either
That Zimbabwe's economy isn't doing well is obvious. That Venezuela's ditto is ditto. Which doesn't bode well for Zimbabwe adopting an economic tactic from...
Ethiopia Doesn’t Own The Patent To Teff – No One Does Now
There's a slight misunderstanding concerning a court case over teff, the national grain of Ethiopia. There was a dodgy little deal some years back...
Zimbabwe’s Third Time Lucky – The Return Of The Zim$
That Zimbabwe has suffered the most appalling economic mismanagement in recent decades is clearly true. That it's a reasonable example of the application of...
Magufuli’s Tanzania Kills Rural Development By Seizing Farms
It's entirely true that Tanzania needs more development. It's also true that it needs more rural and agricultural development, the country has bounteous land...
Uganda’s Declared Tourist Attraction – Curvy, Natural, Women
The claim is that Uganda has added curvaceous, naturally so, women to its list of tourist attractions. This is not quite so. What has...
Celebrities, Institutions, Foundations – Sure They Should Return NAM1 Gifts From Menzgold
By now everyone's sure - or should be - that Menzgold was no more than a Ponzi scheme being run by NAM1. Nana Appiah...
Well, Who Would You Believe? Ethiopia’s Contaminated Wheat Shipment
An interesting little exercise in who to believe here. Ethiopia is importing wheat, a not uncommon occurrence. It's a government agency buying the wheat,...
Ghana’s US Visa Problem Explained – No New Ones Until You Take Back The...
Ghana has an unfortunate problem concerning visas to visit the United States - few new ones are being issued for Ghanaians to travel. This...
Mnangagwa’s Trivially Easy Target For Zimbabwe – Middle Income Country By 2030
Emmerson Mnangagwa, the President of Zimbabwe, has set himself a trivially easy task for the economy, to become a middle income country by 2030....
Ethiopia’s Basic Problem, The Exchange Rate Is Too High – So Float it
We could say a lot of things abut the economy of Ethiopia - it takes time to recover from the imposition of idiot socialism...