The Globalist

The Compact with Africa started off in the wrong way. High time to warn about the wrong course.

Johnson thinks Africa can benefit from adopting more British values. He wants it to be a carbon copy of its former colonial masters.

Although Africa bears one-quarter of the global burden of disease, it only has two percent of the world’s doctors.

African countries lose more than $50 billion each year to illegal financial outflows, mostly through tax avoidance and evasion.

Cultural and natural heritage is important to all of us. But we are doing ourselves a disservice if we allow national interests to come before quality.

Winnie Mandela’s contradictory personas are a reflection of the history of South Africa and of the society that it is today.

A nation’s income level doesn’t always correlate to its freedom level.

The recipients of Beijing’s supposed largess regularly find themselves trapped in debt leading to rising anti-Chinese sentiment.

The country’s leader since 2003 has been adept at evading term limits or restarting the clock on them.

Which world regions have the widest gender gaps and which are closing slowest?