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  Why Africa should dump the dollar and the euro and develop her own currency for international trade THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | America’s weaponisation of the dollar to settle scores with rivals has opened the eyes of many countries about the risks of having one country print the global …

  Many African countries still maintain restrictive visa policies. Even more concerning is that current visa policies often make it easier for non-African travelers, such as Americans and Europeans, to move freely across the continent than African citizens themselves. COMMENT | MAHLET AYELE BEYECHA – CONNECT2AFRICA |  The 38th AU Assembly, scheduled …

AVIATION DIGEST | JARED KALERA |  The airline business has always been a delicate and competitive affair worldwide. This is exemplified by the stiff competition that has of recent emerged for the Entebbe route, in the East African nation of Uganda. With the entry of seven new operators at Entebbe …

COMMENT | IAN BURUMA |  Compared to other Western democracies, the United States is still a profoundly religious country. Around 24% of Americans identify as evangelical Christians. Five US Supreme Court justices are conservative Catholics (the only other conservative on the bench, Neil Gorsuch, was raised and educated as a Catholic but is …

COMMENT | Gertrude Kamya Othieno |  Following the release of the Amanya Mushega-led Education Policy Review Commission (EPRC) Report in February 2025, Uganda’s Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Museveni, hailed the recommendations as “game-changing”. The report, commissioned in 2021, proposes key reforms in education governance, language policy, vocational training, and assessment …

  How Donald Trump and Elon Musk are tearing America’s most insidious instrument of domination THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | The “reforms” to government spending by President Donald Trump and his newfound friend, Elon Musk, are the logical conclusion of the way “democracy” in America has evolved. America has, anyway, …

What happens when a continent is torn apart by a hundred years of war, while another flourishes with trade, innovation, and unity? COMMENT | Gertrude Kamya Othieno | The medieval era offers a stark contrast between Europe, struggling with feudal conflicts and the devastating Hundred Years’ War, and Africa, where empires like …

COMMENT | Olivia Nalubwama |Dear reader, as we say in Ugandan speak, let us be guided. Today’s class will revisit the use of UPPER CASE (or CAPITAL LETTERS as my teachers taught) in online communication. The great internet code deems typing in CAPITAL LETTERS offensive, equivalent to YELLING. Typography and …

  COMMENT | ANGELA HUYUE ZHANG |  In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite into orbit, sparking fears in the United States that, unless it took radical action to accelerate innovation, its Cold War adversary would leave it in the technological dust. Now, the Chinese startup …

  COMMENT | Dean Hack &  Chetan Jeeva |The world is rewriting its rulebook. It’s no longer just about what you produce but how you produce it. For resource-rich regions like Africa, the implications are profound: the value of its vast reserves of critical minerals is now tied not only …