News from Africa, Posts
Sudan: Another Spring Withers in Blood
Just some months ago, thousands of young people in Sudan started to march against Al Bashir, their cruel dictator…
June 10, 2019-
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News from Africa, PostsCorruption and Misgovernment: The Benin and South Africa cases
Two important facts have recently taken place in Africa: the elections in South Africa and the non-democratic “golpe” in…
May 16, 2019 -
Kenya, PostsChina says “Enough!” and wants more
Nairobi. I’m writing while I’m staying in Kenyan capital city. Every year I come here twice, in Spring and…
May 2, 2019 -
News from Africa, PostsAl Serraj, Salvini and 800,000 Immigrants
Last week, Fayez Al Serraj was interviewed by Italian newspaper La Repubblica. He attacked General Haftar and said that…
April 23, 2019 -
Migrations, PostsImmigrants’ SOS to Alarmphone: “It’s not a problem of ours”
On April 10th the Italian Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre received a phone call from Alarmphone saying that a boat…
April 11, 2019 -
Migrations, PostsEurope Must Be Responsible for Repatriations
Three different texts can give us a new perspective about immigration. First text: the article by Mrs. Elena Gabanelli…
March 6, 2019 -
Migrations, PostsWhen will the 600,000 invisible illegal immigrants go back home?
When Mr. Salvini won his seat in Viminale – a big building in Rome, near Termini station, home of…
February 20, 2019 -
News, News from Africa, Post, PostsMovimento 5 Stelle attacks France: what a farce!
Even if it has been more than a week, I would like to talk about the CFA Franc and…
January 28, 2019 -
News from Africa, PostsAfrica: Signals not To Be Ignored
Attacks, kidnaps, migrations. During last months some events have been showing the African way towards future. Unfortunately, the projection…
January 22, 2019 -
Kenya, Kenya, Post, PostsDandora Dump Site: Hell on Earth
While Europe is keeping on living its identity and value crisis and on making immigrants the scapegoats for its…
January 18, 2019 -
News, PostsMacron and the terrifying yellow alarm clock
Macron was elected almost by chance, by a French mechanism which allows people to become “real” presidents of France…
December 13, 2018 -
Migrations, PostsSALVINI’S SECURITY LAW. IMMIGRANTS FLEEING… IN ITALY
With Salvini’s security law, lots of illegal immigrants will go around Europe and will try to enter black economy…
December 4, 2018 -
News, PostsThe Crisis of Western World: Populism and Fights for rights.
Let’s be realistic: which politician or government will take the responsibility of putting up the solutions we have suggested…
November 22, 2018 -
News, Post, PostsThe Crisis of Western World: Some Solutions.
After my reasoning out about western world’s crisis, I wondered if it could be stopped and I thought about…
November 14, 2018 -
Kenya, PostsBusiness? Export to Kenya.
National wellness will be achieved also thanks to enterprising processes and some of them are already active in the…
October 31, 2018 -
Kenya, PostsBut dangers for Kenya are just around the corner…
Considering the potentialities we talked about in last articles, we can’t ignore those big obstacles slowing the country’s development…
October 19, 2018 -
Kenya, PostsKenya’s strenghts.
We have talked about Kenya’s problems and aspects which could and should be improved; anyway, Kenya has also positive…
September 28, 2018 -
Kenya, PostsAn overview on Kenya: economy, taxes and services.
According to experts, Kenya’s GDP will increase at a rate of 6% each year. This would be an extremely…
September 20, 2018 -
Kenya, PostsKenya and Nairobi: paradigmatic for Africa.
Driving along Waiyaki Way, towards Westland, in the early afternoon, Nairobi’s infernal traffic tends to diminish. After the crossroad…
September 18, 2018 -
Migrations, PostsA great middle term plan: we should “adopt” Africa.
In the coming years, migration will involve 3 main areas: Maghreb, which is economically poor, Sahel (Niger, Chad, Mauritania,…
August 7, 2018 -
Migrations, Migrazioni, Post, PostsItaly: land of emigration and immigration.
Like lots of poor countries, Italy was a country of emigrations, from the beginning of 20th century: south and…
August 2, 2018 -
Migrations, PostsAfrican migration’s figures.
To better understand migration, we must have a look at figures; but not at the random ones which media,…
July 31, 2018 -
Migrations, Migrazioni, Post, PostsPoor people fighting poor people.
Africa is experimenting with the biggest demographic development in the world’s history. This demographic explosion is occurring in a…
July 27, 2018 -
Migrations, Migrazioni, Post, PostsWhich immigrants? Migration types.
We are talking more and more – and ONLY – about immigrants, landings and sea rescues, but words themselves…
July 25, 2018 -
Migrations, PostsWealthier but poor.
We have analysed some data so far and they are quite worrying: in next decades, a great part of…
July 23, 2018 -
Posts, RoboticsProgress and… terrible social risks.
Social risks caused by robotics’ advance are starting to be considered also by G20 countries. Future citizens will live…
July 20, 2018 -
Posts, RoboticsMachine learning, robotics and AI.
Let’s leave white people with their fears for a moment and let’s back to the topic we were discussing…
July 18, 2018 -
News from Africa, PostsThe scared white people.
There is a great fear spreading around Europe and western countries – also USA. Fear of everything and everyone.…
July 16, 2018 -
Post, Posts, Robotics, Robotizzazione e 4.0. Arrivano i robot: una peste per l’Africa.Robotics is coming: a plague for Africa.
Humanity is setting some technological innovation’s targets, which were unbelievable just some years ago and which will probably be…
July 13, 2018 -
Post, Posts, Sustainable development, Sviluppo PossibileChina. Or better, Chinas.
A hand is stretching onto Africa: China’s hand. After the fall of Berlin Wall, while USA were trying to…
July 11, 2018 -
Posts, Sustainable developmentHow can technology change Africa?
Going back to previous article, trying to analyse African needs and to offer specific solutions, starting from the context…
July 6, 2018 -
Posts, Sustainable developmentStartups and incubators: a future success?
Lots of books dwell on the excellent experience of African startups, on their dynamism and their exponential growth. This…
July 4, 2018 -
Posts, Sustainable developmentConnection creating expectations: Copia Global.
Today Africa, like other developing countries, is experimenting with new digital technologies, but it has never steered an industrialization…
July 3, 2018 -
Migrations, Migrazioni, Post, PostsEUROPE TO AFRICA: “IT’S ONLY YOUR BUSINESS!”
Tomorrow Europe is going to have a meeting to plan future strategies about migrations and, as a consequence, about…
June 27, 2018 -
Migrations, PostsTHE CHASE AFTER THE MIGRANT IS ON!
Western countries have found their enemy: the migrant. In Europe and USA an atmosphere of evil, of crass racism,…
June 22, 2018 -
Posts, Sustainable developmentThe big African resources: the land.
Let’s g back to African possible development. In Africa 2 in 3 people are farmers and 50% of them…
June 20, 2018 -
News from Africa, PostsAQUARIUS: AFRICA IS SINKING EUROPE!
The storm caused by Aquarius was politically foreseeable. That Salvini would create a European political case about immigration was…
June 15, 2018 -
Posts, Sustainable developmentTechnology connecting Africa: Mpesa
African economy has the chance to strengthen from a domestic point of view and it could do it aiming…
June 14, 2018 -
Posts, Quality of LifeLet’s back to inexistent work…
Working force in Africa will soon be bigger than China’s and India’s ones: according to McKinsey’s analysis, by 2034,…
June 11, 2018 -
Posts, Quality of LifeBut education is taking off…
If in Africa health service’s and transports’ data are negative, education is living some positive trends: the number of…
June 6, 2018 -
Posts, Quality of LifeHealth assistance and transports: in Africa they are not for free.
In Africa, health situation is particularly complicated and urgent: chest infections, TBC, malnutrition, HIV, malaria, are only some of…
June 4, 2018 -
Posts, Quality of LifeThe mirage of retiring.
Being life expectancy around 50 years, African countries have always underestimated retirements phenomenon. You were born, you worked, and…
June 1, 2018 -
Post, Posts, Qualità della Vita. Povertà, disuguaglianza, servizi insufficienti, disoccupazione, tasse insufficienti., Quality of LifeTaxes in Africa: the virtuous circle gets vicious…
A functioning state should be able to collect funds through a right taxation and to redistribute them through the…
May 29, 2018 -
Posts, Quality of LifeQuality of life: in Africa it is the worst in the world.
Authoritative institutions’ findings tell us that, from 1980 onward, poverty has decreased: in last 20 years, only in sub-Saharan…
May 25, 2018 -
News from Africa, PostsTHE ECONOMIST IS “COPYING US”: AFRICA’S FUTURE IS NOT ROSY.
While reading “Don’t expect miracles” on The Economist’s last week edition, I wondered: “Have they read my book and…
May 22, 2018 -
Posts, Urbanization. African life in 21st century. Stuck in cities and cars, with no way out!Big infrastructure is inadequate: the World Bank’s solutions.
After the sunset, Africa is all dark, except for Nigeria, north Africa and South Africa. Therefore, it is not…
May 18, 2018 -
Posts, Urbanization. African life in 21st century. Stuck in cities and cars, with no way out!We write “slums”, we read “hell”.
When talking about population growth, an element is very important: in Africa 70% of people who are going to…
May 17, 2018 -
Post, Posts, Robotics, Robotizzazione e 4.0. Arrivano i robot: una peste per l’Africa.THE TERRIFYING WORK CRISIS CAUSED BY ROBOTICS.
Seen the contemporary technological and robotics revolution, we must look at the world from a different point of view.…
May 14, 2018 -
Posts, Urbanization. African life in 21st century. Stuck in cities and cars, with no way out!Two fundamental challenges to escape the nightmare: external shocks and health and sanitation.
Climate change will play an important role in Africa’s future, especially for health: droughts are getting longer and stronger,…
May 11, 2018 -
Posts, Urbanization. African life in 21st century. Stuck in cities and cars, with no way out!Energy supply and waste management. The long road towards development.
More than a half of African energy comes from gas cylinders, paraffin, diesel, coal and firewood. Africa is worth…
May 9, 2018 -
News from Africa, PostsGlobalization is dead! Will it be reborn?
Let’s consider evidences. In Asia (especially in China), pro capita incomes have grown up to 15 times in last…
April 17, 2018 -
Posts, Urbanization. African life in 21st century. Stuck in cities and cars, with no way out!African cities and next years’ seven challenges.
In order to survive human beings’ pressure of next years, African cities will have to face some challenges concerning…
April 11, 2018 -
Posts, Urbanization. African life in 21st century. Stuck in cities and cars, with no way out!Migrating to cities doesn’t mean finding a job: Italy’s past VS Africa’s present.
Italy had its urbanization’s climax during the 1970s: people migrated from the south to the north to look for…
April 6, 2018 -
News from Africa, PostsIn the coming decades productivity is going to increase, but poverty and inequality will grow even in developed countries.
In “Labor 2030: The Collision of Demographics, Automation and Inequality”, a Bain & Company’s official report, they profile next…
April 4, 2018 -
Posts, Urbanization. African life in 21st century. Stuck in cities and cars, with no way out!Megalopolis: the greatest African nightmare.
Africa is the least urbanized continent in the world, where few people live in cities: in the world 50%…
March 29, 2018 -
News from Africa, PostsAlmost all African countries chose free trade.
44 African countries have just signed the Continental Free Trade Act (CFTA). It will allow free trade among these…
March 27, 2018 -
Posts, Urbanization. African life in 21st century. Stuck in cities and cars, with no way out!“OH, so sorry! It’s been just traffic jam…”
“Traffic jam”. This is the keyword when being late for an appointment in the centre of Nairobi: it’s enough…
March 23, 2018 -
Economy, PostsAnd then… why should we help them?
Despite the billions of moneys which have been spent in last years, in Africa people are still dying from…
March 21, 2018 -
Economy, PostsHow can we help Africa?
In Dambisa Moyo’s opinion, the young economist we have already talked about, it is time to stop unrecoverable donations…
March 20, 2018 -
Economy, PostsThe continent which has been helped the most… is also the poorest one!
We have seen that Africa is a continent that has been robbed and controlled, but that has been also,…
March 16, 2018 -
Economy, PostsStories of ordinary non-democracy…
Last decades’ African history is full of facts characterized by the same mechanisms: powerful people making so that few…
March 14, 2018 -
News from Africa, Posts
In Africa, national debts are increasing again. And the economic situation is worsening.
As if all problems and brakes we have talked about so far were not enough, this week The Economist…
March 12, 2018 -
Economy, PostsThe curse of riches.
Africa is a deposit for 15% of petroleum, 40% of gold, 80% of platinum. It is the richest continent…
March 9, 2018 -
Economy, PostsAn unstoppable demographic growth. Another brake to development.
Africa owns 30% of Earth’s natural resources, but it isn’t growing as it should. Vietnam, for example, grows by…
March 8, 2018 -
News from Africa, PostsAfrica’s first politic victim: Italy.
Africa has politically knocked Italy out. Salvini triumphing in the North and Movimento 5 Stelle succeeding in the South…
March 6, 2018 -
Economy, Economy, Post, PostsAnyway, Africa is growing: Stable, Vulnerable and Slow Growers.
Africa is continually evolving: even if its GDP weighs little in comparison with the world’s wealth, it increased at…
March 2, 2018 -
Economy, PostsAfrica is less worth than France… How can it be possible?!
Africa produces only 2,328 billion dollars. 738 of them, almost a third, come from northern countries, the most advanced…
February 27, 2018 -
Globalization and Politics, PostsPolitics is likely to “stop” Africa.
In lots of countries, African politics is like a football match between two or three teams with millions of…
February 23, 2018 -
News from Africa, Posts“CONGO IS HEADING BACK TO HELL”. This week’s The Economist’s cover. This is news!
If The Economist dedicates its cover to an event or a phenomenon, we must take it seriously. This week…
February 21, 2018 -
Globalization and Politics, PostsHow can it be that rich people represent the famous 1% of the world owning 46% of global wealth?
They are people with more means and possibilities to play on different tables – finance, technology, internationality and inherited…
February 19, 2018 -
Globalization and Politics, PostsAfrica: on the margins of globalization’s dance.
This picture showing the world in terms of GDPs introduces the “real” dimensions of Africa. Despite its extension, the…
February 16, 2018 -
Globalization and Politics, PostsCommunicating vessels: Asia grows up, while the West gets poorer.
Principle of communicating vessels: if total wealth in the world grows slowly and a group benefits from this, the…
February 14, 2018 -
Globalization and Politics, PostsAfrica is on the move, but has powerful brakes.
McKinsey Global Insitute’s second report is entitled “Lions on the move: realizing the potential of African economies”. And if…
February 12, 2018 -
Demography, PostsHalf of African people is under 20, and they are going to be jobless.
Africa’s future is young! Graphs show that the continent’s population is likely to become a huge basin of working-age…
February 9, 2018 -
Demography, PostsIn Africa population growth is explosive.
According to United Nations’ estimations, we are waiting for a population of 9.8 billion people in 2050. The countries…
February 7, 2018 -
Demography, PostsAfrican demographic growth… some terrorizing figures.
United Nations and Population Pyramids.net predict that in 2100 Africa will have 4.3 billion inhabitants. It’s not a joke.…
February 5, 2018 -
News, News from Africa, Post, PostsEven swearing-ins are fake in Kenya!
African politics is extremely strange. Raila Odinga’s swearing-in is an example of it. As a result of last Kenyan…
February 2, 2018 -
Kenya, PostsOnce upon a time there was a dumpsite…
Dandora. More than 2.5 square kilometres of land, covered in waste and rubbish, inside Dandora slum. Together with those…
January 22, 2018 -
News from Africa, PostsItalian soldiers in Niger. Right or wrong?
We talked about it last December, when Mr Gentiloni stated that some Italian soldiers would be sent to Niger.…
January 18, 2018 -
News from Africa, PostsWhite people in danger. If Mr Fontana had not been so racist… he would have been right!
Mr Fontana tried to justify his unacceptable racist attack to immigrants by making some statements, which describe the future.…
January 16, 2018 -
Posts, The Future. Powder keg, nightmare or sustainable development?Hope vs nightmare.
Western people often have a distorted perception of Africa, and sometimes it is completely wrong. It is often the…
January 12, 2018 -
Migrations, PostsMigrating: the only way out.
In the coming weeks, we are going to talk about a hot topic: migrations. After the analysis of demographic…
January 10, 2018 -
Posts, RoboticsTechnology and robotics. Two double-edged swords.
Last year, I used to think, or better to hope, that Africa would have found its place in the…
January 8, 2018 -
Posts, Sustainable developmentAfrican solutions to African problems.
Which are Africa’s chances for development? Can African economy get stronger? The answer is… maybe. African economy should aim…
January 5, 2018 -
News from Africa, PostsIn South Africa, ANC has a new leader. Will he be the future hope?
On December 18th, the most important South African party – ANC, that is African National Congress, which is still…
January 4, 2018 -
Post, Posts, Qualità della Vita. Povertà, disuguaglianza, servizi insufficienti, disoccupazione, tasse insufficienti., Quality of LifeTaxes, inadequate or private services. The heart of non-development.
Despite its richness in resources and its last years’ development, Africa often emerges, in graphs and schemes, as the…
January 2, 2018 -
Posts, Urbanization. African life in 21st century. Stuck in cities and cars, with no way out!Megalopolis and their challenges in 21st century.
Nairobi. An expanding and moving megalopolis, where the expression “traffic jam” is commonplace. Although Kenyan capital is a main…
December 29, 2017 -
News, News from Africa, PostsItalian soldiers in Niger to stop migrations. Hope or doubts?
Before Christmas, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni announced that a military mission was going to be effective in Niger…
December 28, 2017 -
Economy, PostsThe curse of riches: another African paradox
When talking about economy, we must remember that Africa is worth 3% of world’s GDP. An unacceptable situation, if…
December 27, 2017 -
Globalization and Politics, Globalization and Politics, PostsThe brake of politics and the economic stagnation.
Africa has always been on the margins of globalization’s banquet. We are talking about a giant from a territorial…
December 22, 2017 -
Demography, PostsExploding evidences: demography
Let’s start with this blog’s name: Exploding Africa. I wanted to define Africa as “exploding” because this word has…
December 18, 2017 -
News, News from Africa, Posts36 MILLION VS 52 BILLION: and what if Mickey Mouse could solve the migrations’ problem?
Today some news about the way we are facing world’s emergencies just makes us smile. After the ridiculous so-called…
December 15, 2017 -
Exploding Africa, PostsLet’s talk about Africa…
In these years, Africa has been on newspapers’ pages, in lots of people’s minds and one of governments’ worries,…
December 12, 2017 -
Exploding Africa, PostsToday in bookstores!
“Exploding Africa” in its Italian version is now available in the best Italian bookstores and on Amazon.it What is…
December 7, 2017 -
News, News from Africa, PostsLibya: will all cruelties on migrants stop?
More than discussing and deciding about European Union’s helps to Africa, the summit in Abidjan has also face the…
December 4, 2017 -
News, PostsRight words. But poor facts.
Yesterday, the two-day summit in Côte d’Ivoire wrapped up. When you read and listen to all declarations, interviews and…
December 1, 2017 -
News, News from Africa, PostsAbidjan. A chance for development or a nightmare for Europe?
Today a piece of Europe, with its prime ministers and ministers for foreign affairs, has moved to Côte d’Ivoire.…
November 29, 2017
