Articles from African Business (April 1, 2007)

Title	Author	Type	Words
African artistry.	Sheyin, Ola	Interview	1583
Africans are too afraid to be free.	Tete, Ruth	Interview	2025
AU's new policy shift.	Johns, Trevor	Letter to the editor	391
Axioms of effective leadership (Part 1). Having a leader in charge doesn't guarantee progress and profit unless the leader has what it takes for his leadership to function effectively. Of all the attributes of effective leaders, love appears to me the most critical.	Kumuyi, William F.	Viewpoint essay	1595
Canada: "Africa is a lost cause".			634
Carter: "fight against Guinea worm disease needs more effort"; "Ghana must do more to raise public awareness and ensure a sense of urgency to finally put an end to the social injustice of Guinea worm disease," says the Carter Centre.			553
Confessions of a CIA agent: ... how the imperial powers control Africa by remote control.	Boateng, Osei	Book review	7774
Darfur: the inside story; Alex de Waal, programme director at the Social Science Research Council, who participated in the various Darfur negotiations, gives a rare insight into why the Darfur conflict still rages on.	de Waal, Alex		3697
Disability is not inability: out of Africa always comes something new, says the old adage. Allie Kallay reports on the first continental amputee football tournament staged in Freetown, Sierra Leone.	Kallay, Allie		371
Gambia's first university proves its worth: for the first 34 years of independence, The Gambia had no university. It got one in 1999, and the first batch of 11 medical students has graduated. Ebrima Baldeh reports from Banjul.	Baldeh, Ebrima		645
Ghana: 6 March, the suit and the president.	Goka, Dela	Letter to the editor	467
Ghana: glory, glory ... except the suit; All roads led to the Independence Square in Accra on 6 March as Ghana marked the high-point of its year-long golden jubilee celebrations. But the occasion was marred by controversies right from the planning to the big day. Efam Dovi reports from Accra.	Dovi, Efam		1045
Hi, dearie, you want business? An influx of African prostitutes, more a tide than a trickle, within the last two to three years has transformed the appearance and practice of the trade in the UK. Clayton Goodwin reports.	Goodwin, Clayton		1505
How The Daily Telegraph opened my eyes to racism; If you nobble a country politically at birth by handing it to your apes, because they can read and write English, you don't deserve to sit back in judgement over yourself and say, narcissistically: "how great we were. If only they had done what we instructed them to do!" Pure tosh!	Duodu, Cameron		1530
I think like an African: protecting the African brain is a task that we have to set our minds to from now on. It is a vital necessity. It has to be done irrespective of the hours, years, or pain expended. The African brain has to be defended at all costs.	Orakwue, Stella	Column	1568
Impressive results in Africa: after years of pessimistic forecasts about the health situation in Africa, great strides have been made across the board. Mercy Eze evaluates some of the achievements that confounded the surrounding pessimism.	Eze, Mercy		1190
Is Oprah really to the rescue?	Campbell, Kofi	Letter to the editor	282
King Drogba.		Author abstract	101
Nigeria: the power behind the throne (Part 3).	Sheyin, Ola		2486
Sierra Leone: what use the Special Court?	Gberie, Lansana		1283
Slavery reparations are in order.	Shakami, Elishah	Letter to the editor	328
Stealing a nation.	Cham, Sulayman M.	Letter to the editor	135
Sudan: "we're all Africans, we're all black", says President Bashir.			561
The wonders of Liberia's Blue Lake: the "discovery" of a natural lake in the pristine forests of Liberia's Bomi County is causing so much excitement that the catchment area is being touted as an investor's haven. Jarlawah Tonpo reports.	Tonpo, Jarlawah		611
USA: "the best way to keep the nigger from voting is to see him the night before election"; A powerful new pictorial book, The Coming Free - The Struggle for African American Equality 1954-1966 has just been published. In this piece the author, David Rubel, provides a little taste of what the book offers.	Rubel, David	Book review	1090
What a delight.	Siame, Lydia	Letter to the editor	252