The African continent is mostly reported as a land of poverty, civil strife and endless lines of begging hands. Problems facing the continent are portrayed and communicated mostly by foreign eyes through the monopoly-controlled news media.
By publishing African Agenda, Third World Network Africa aims to provide a different, more complex and nuanced perspective. Open your eyes and ears to an African perspective on critical issues such as trade, the environment, gender and sustainable development.

Seeds in Africa, future of farmer seed system at risk?

A raft of changes occasioned by global interventions in African countries has taken the control of seeds from the African farmer into the hands of commercial seed conglomerates leaving the farmer likely to become very dependent on others for...

After floods, an early ‘lean season’ awaits South Sudan

‘There will be serious food shortage as early as January 2020.’ South Sudan in the midst of all its political turmoil must brace itself for food shortage the result of raging floods reports *Okech Francis.

The African Mining Vision @ 10: familiar tale of grand visions and implementation shortfalls

The adoption of the Africa Mining Vision (AMV) signaled an African consensus against the mineral governance model imposed by the World Bank as part of its Structural Adjustment Programme policies. 10 years on the implementation record across Africa is...

African Agenda 22.5

African Agenda 22.4

Is West Africa ready to contain terror from the fringes of the Sahel, as it threatens to gradually, descend on the whole region, asks *Cornelius Adedze