Dr. Okonjo-Iweala On Nigeria's Empty Excess Crude Account And Sovereign Wealth Fund

Dr. Okonjo-Iweala, former Nigeria's Minister of Finance, explains why Nigeria's Excess Crude…


Professionalism in Africa’s Militaries Is Indispensible to Growth, Development And Stability

  Emile Ouédraogo at the African Center for Strategic Studies provides a must-read for African…


Wombs And Alien Spirits

  Women, Men and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan. By Janice Boddy. Reviewed by Tanya Luhrman. A…


Is Poverty Key To An Understanding Of Terrorism And National Security?

Carol Lancaster.  Imagine the following advertisement for Al Qaeda: “Wanted: Educated individuals…


Term Limits In Africa Matter

Joseph Siegle. Africa has a problem of presidents not leaving office when it’s time to do so. The…


Death From Above

  Reviewed By Chris Nelson. Andrew Cockburn. Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins.…


Think Twice About More Military Aid to Nigeria

 *The Council strongly disagrees with this view but the author raises serious substantive issues.*…


Africa: Security and Development for the 21st Century

Shannon D Beebe.   “If the West is to continue to assert that there should be African…


Africa’s Islamic State?

  J. Peter Pham. Even as, coming out of the annual NATO summit in Wales, the United States and…