GGA Dev
Behind the word mountains
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and...
PODCAST: The Presidential Issue
CASE STUDY: Mbizana, a rural South African municipality
In Mbizana, informal businesses keep some afloat Last year, GGA published its first local government survey, which ranked South Africa’s 234 local and metro municipalities according to a select number of factors relating to municipal service provision, economic...
An uphill task
Adama Barrow astonished the world by unseating long-time autocrat Gambian Yahya Jammeh, but now faces an unenviable task of rebuilding a country left in ruin Before his rise to The Gambian presidency little was known of Adama Barrow, who was finally installed in the...
China vs the IMF
African countries find China’s loan conditions to be far less onerous than the IMF’s, and the Asian country is digging deep to fund social development and industrialisation on the continent, for a price Less than a year after launching a rail project partly funded by...
Building on local skills
Chinese companies have long being accused of exploiting African labour and excluding locals from skills development, but a continental pushback might force change In a wood-panelled room on the Jinhua campus of Zhejiang Normal University, by the picture-perfect Xinyue...
Backing a rogue state
Liberation struggle ties bind Africa to North Korea, and despite UN sanctions, the nation enjoys a reciprocal market for materiel, and more, on the continent The mere mention of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (more commonly referred to as North Korea) reminds...
Modi courts Africa’s markets
East and Southern Africa’s sizeable Indian diaspora won’t necessarily cement the country’s ties with the continent, but careful diplomacy might In July 2016 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first official visit to Africa. The visit was seen as a follow up...
Recent Posts
SPONSORED CONTENT
PAST WEBINARS
GGA Dev
PODCAST: Natural Resources
Behind the word mountains
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and...
PODCAST: The Presidential Issue
CASE STUDY: Mbizana, a rural South African municipality
In Mbizana, informal businesses keep some afloat Last year, GGA published its first local government survey, which ranked South Africa’s 234 local and metro municipalities according to a select number of factors relating to municipal service provision, economic...
An uphill task
Adama Barrow astonished the world by unseating long-time autocrat Gambian Yahya Jammeh, but now faces an unenviable task of rebuilding a country left in ruin Before his rise to The Gambian presidency little was known of Adama Barrow, who was finally installed in the...
China vs the IMF
African countries find China’s loan conditions to be far less onerous than the IMF’s, and the Asian country is digging deep to fund social development and industrialisation on the continent, for a price Less than a year after launching a rail project partly funded by...
Building on local skills
Chinese companies have long being accused of exploiting African labour and excluding locals from skills development, but a continental pushback might force change In a wood-panelled room on the Jinhua campus of Zhejiang Normal University, by the picture-perfect Xinyue...
Backing a rogue state
Liberation struggle ties bind Africa to North Korea, and despite UN sanctions, the nation enjoys a reciprocal market for materiel, and more, on the continent The mere mention of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (more commonly referred to as North Korea) reminds...
Modi courts Africa’s markets
East and Southern Africa’s sizeable Indian diaspora won’t necessarily cement the country’s ties with the continent, but careful diplomacy might In July 2016 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first official visit to Africa. The visit was seen as a follow up...