Centuries after the founder of the Zulu Empire was murdered by his half-brothers, his last words became the sword of Damocles that cursed Africa.
When Shaka ka Senzangakhona, Zulu king, was stabbed by Dingane and Mhlangana at kwaDukuza (in what has become South Africa) on September 24, 1828, the first of the two killers assumed the throne. His decision to defy Shaka’s dying words were to …

Investors were widely expected to abandon Africa -the world’s wealthiest continent, yet portrayed as the poorest by the media – after the recent waves of publicity about the famine in Somalia.
Once again, Africa has been making headlines for the wrong reasons, and there are real concerns that lenders will no longer make funds available to support it following the Somali crisis.
“At the height of a …