COLUMNIST: JAMES SHIKWATI

James Shikwati, Director Inter Region Economic Network (IREN Kenya)

The Multipolar World Demands a New African Strategy

Sep 22, 2025 | Feature Article

African nations have since independence operated within a global system they did not participate in designing, one th ...

A Great America And The Challenges For Africa

Nov 24, 2016 | Feature Article

President Elect Donald Trump rsquo;s call to ldquo;Make America Great Again rdquo; endeared him to the American elec ...

Why Africa’s Industrialization Is Still A Mirage

May 4, 2016 | Feature Article

It is time Africans identified the difference between market seeking industries and intrinsic industrialization. When ...

Africa In Geopolitics And Why Nothing Is Innocent

Apr 21, 2016 | Feature Article

What Africa? Africa has thousands of social ndash; economic and political ecosystems. This has made some people to r ...

African Agency: To Act Or To Be Acted Upon?

Nov 25, 2015 | Feature Article

The just concluded 13th IREN Africa Resource Bank Forum elicited different reactions on the theme ldquo;African ...

The Power of Maps and How Africa Can Outgrow Aid

Nov 18, 2015 | Feature Article

The World Bank Chief Economist, Apurva Shangi rsquo;s report featured in Business Daily(November 11, 2015), threw ...

Development Cooperation Should Be Sensitive To Peoples' Aspirations

Sep 11, 2015 | Feature Article

The World is not flat; it is full of valleys and mountains The ruggedness of the World is what spurred humanity ...

Obama Visit Opens Chapter For Refreshing Times in Africa

Jul 29, 2015 | Feature Article

President Barack Obama rsquo;s visit to Africa has set in motion forces that will pressure Africans to invest in ...

Lampedusa Deaths: Formalize African Migration to Europe

Jun 25, 2015 | Feature Article

Media interviews of Africans held up at crossing points to Europe along the Mediterranean Sea shores paint a picture of ...

Xenophobia: Time Africans Shared Economic Dreams

Apr 27, 2015 | Feature Article

The ongoing xenophobia attacks in South Africa are a reminder to each African to rethink what drives continental dreams. ...

Geopolitics: Why Africa Must Create Its Own Dream

Aug 14, 2014 | Feature Article

Africa is living the dreams of other civilizations. In the absence of a well crafted center of gravity -- a set of Afric ...

China-Africa and the Quest for Smart Wins

Mar 8, 2014 | Feature Article

Tanzania s Prof. Mwesiga Baregu once argued that the use of the image of village and jungle have decisive implicatio ...

Denial of Ubuntu: The African Union’s Achilles’ Heel

Oct 17, 2013 | Feature Article

In Robert Zoellick s Beyond Aid; it was assumed that the world had moved on from an old order where some countries dic ...

East and West: Who will Dance to African Drums?

Sep 5, 2013 | Feature Article

Africans familiar with the board game 'Bao' may not be surprised at the recent news that the continent lost over USD 1.4 ...

Oil and Gas: Kenya’s Eight Challenges

Jul 24, 2013 | Feature Article

The discoveries of oil and gas provide a great opportunity for Kenya to reposition herself as a business hub in the regi ...

President Xi Jinping Visit and Africa’s Dilemma

Mar 20, 2013 | Feature Article

The newly endorsed Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to visit Tanzania, South Africa and Democratic Republic of Congo ...

2013: A Special Year for Africa

Feb 6, 2013 | Feature Article

A Ghanaian AC Milan midfielder, Kevin-Prince Boateng's reaction to racial insults directed at him on Thursday (January 3 ...

James Shikwati

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