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Good governance: central to all progress
After decades of military and one-party regimes, more African countries are now holding regular...
Ghana’s economy: hope rekindled
Drying cocoa in Ghana’s Ashanti Region: Will cocoa, the economy’s mainstay for the past century,...
‘A lot of reasons to be optimistic’
Photograph: UN Africa Renewal / Marlene Tremblay-Gervais
African media breaks ‘culture of silence’
Reading a newspaper in Madagascar: Since the early 1990s, independent newspapers have broken...
A ‘wind of change’ that transformed the continent
A rally in Cape Verde with portraits of Amilcar Cabral and Aristides Pereira, leaders of the...
African women’s long walk to equality
Women in Madagascar benefit from a micro-finance programme: African women’s movements are focusing...
Visions of independence, then and now
Fifty years ago, independent Africa's first generation of leaders had particular visions of where...