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Rule of Law, Transparency & Accountability are key to improving public governance in Africa
Africa will not be able to seize the transformation opportunities often highlighted by regional and global development frameworks if governance shortcomings persist. Although it is difficult to measure precisely good governance and its costs, there are tools such as the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) that provide useful indices and… Read more
Education quality and the youth skills gap are marring progress in Africa
Q&A with David E Kiwuwa, Associate Professor of International Studies at the University of Nottingham, and Ibrahim Scholar Mandipa Ndlovu The Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) measures and monitors Africa’s governance performance. It produces an impartial picture of governance performance in every country on the continent.… Read more
Congo's election: a defeat for democracy, a disaster for the people
Joint Op-ed by Mo Ibrahim, Founder and Chair of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, and Alan Doss, the President of the Kofi Annan Foundation. This article was originally published by The Guardian on 9 February 2019.In accepting the controversial outcome of DRC’s presidential election, the global community has failed the country.The major players in the… Read more
Is Central Africa a victim of bad governance?
Written by Tanguy Berthemet. This article originally was published in French by Le Figaro on Monday, 11 February. You can access the original article here. While other parts of the continent are experiencing economic, political or social success, this region is accumulating poor indicators and appears to be collapsing. It would… Read more
In Senegal, the left has given up fighting for its ideals - interview with MIF Scholar Rama Salla Dieng
According to academic Rama Salla Dieng, the Senegalese left, absent from the upcoming presidential election on 24 February, is paying for its successive compromises with the Liberals. The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author. They do not reflect the opinions or views of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. Interview by… Read more
Ibrahim Fellow, Charlotte Ashamu, appointed as Associate Director at The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art
Congratulations to former Ibrahim Fellow Charlotte Ashamu for her recent appointment as the Associate Director of Advancement and External Affairs at The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C.Charlotte will oversee the museum’s efforts to deepen and broaden engagement with a global network of partners in the philanthropic… Read more
Mme Aïcha Bah Diallo on the importance of learning to live together for the future of education
A diverse group of thought leaders, practitioners and innovators convened in Paris on 20 and 21 February to discuss and collaborate on actionable and innovative solutions in education and how to shape the learning societies of today and tomorrow.Foundation Prize Committee member Mme Aïcha Bah Diallo, a champion of girls’ and women’s learning,… Read more
Festus Mogae joins international observers during Nigerian elections
2008 Ibrahim Prize Laureate, Ibrahim Prize Committee member, and former President of Botswana Festus Mogae visited Nigeria as part of an international election observation mission organised by the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI).The 2019 Nigerian presidential elections took place on 23 February… Read more
To curb mass African migration, bring the jobs to Africa
The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or views of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.Even as we lived as refugees in Guinea, my father was never a big fan of mass migration. He saw it as a destroyer of family bonds and a disruptor of emigrant economies via brain drain. To make… Read more
African migrations: setting the picture right
The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or views of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.If we begin with the premise that the cradle of mankind is in Africa, then it goes to follow that migration has been a practice since time immemorial. It is not a new, 21st century challenge.… Read more
