Corruption is preventing states across the continent from delivering the most basic services to their citizens.

Mhaka has a BA Honours degree from the University of Cape Town and works in the communications industry.
Corruption is preventing states across the continent from delivering the most basic services to their citizens.
Royals should not be allowed to score ‘woke points’ by expressing regret over their ancestors’ atrocities.
The continental body is not demonstrating true neutrality with its actions.
It is high time for African leaders to accept LGBTQ rights are human rights.
Africa can contribute much to the African American agenda and vice-versa.
Rather than following the lead of despots like Putin and Xi, Africa needs to chart its own path.
African leaders need to acknowledge Russian expansionism is as immoral and harmful as Western colonialism.
It is not foreign powers that are keeping Zimbabwe in a permanent state of crisis, but its own government.
We should not take Mnangagwa’s claim that he is working to further democracy and human rights in Zimbabwe at face value.
The ANC has failed to dismantle apartheid’s economic structures and as a result, people are losing faith in democracy.