Yoweri Museveni has ensured that the west is dependent on him

The UK is a diminished power in Africa

The UK is a diminished power in Africa

Africa’s giant is a world leader in corruption. Can the new president change this?

Fifty years after independence, Africa’s most populous country is finally trying to clean up its act

Colonial powers created African states with arbitrary borders and unsuitable systems of "winner-takes-all" multi-party electoral democracy. As recent elections show, this has been a failure. It is...

There are worrying signs that the international criminal court's approach to justice may be jeopardising peace in Africa

The debate over reparations for slavery is a lot more complicated than I once thought

Too many African schools worship the idea of education but then teach nothing useful. A school in rural Uganda points the way to a brighter future

A small girl I encounter outside a Ugandan refugee camp somehow persuades me to pay her school fees. I soon find myself caught up in an ambiguous African story of doubt, mistrust and guilt