PAN AFRICAN VISIONS MARKETING AFRICAN SUCCESS STORIES & MORE MAG 0919 Vol 2, September 2019 www.panafricanvisions.com Cameroon, Guinea, South Africa….NDI’s Dr Chris Fomunyoh On Africa’s Shrinking Democratic Space Mozambique Goes For Another Peace Deal Page 8 Will Cameroon Survive Biya? Page 16 Hero or Villain- The checkered Legacy of Robert Mugabe Page 17 No victor no vanquished in Rwanda/ Uganda Feud Page 11 A Cult Status In Death For DJ Arafat Page 44 PAN-AFRICAN PRO-AFRICAN www.centurionlg.com Contents PAN AFRICAN VISIONs CONTENTS Of Giants with Clay Feet and South Africa's Horror Show ____ 2 Washington Braces Up for Mega Forum on Making African Trade Easy ________________________________________ 29 Cameroon, Guinea, South Africa'. NDI's Dr Chris Fomunyoh On Africa's Shrinking Democratic Space __________________ 3 -Q& A with Angelle Kwemo on Mate 2019 _______________ 29 Third Time Lucky? Mozambique Signs Another Peace Agree- Free roaming benefits operators, users as One Africa Network ment ________________________________________ 8 reaches 11 countries _____________________________ 31 Malawi: Efforts For Dialogue Failing In Post Elections Impasse 9 Susan Dexter: From Sierra Leone To Running The Victorian Candle Bed and Breakfast, the number one getaway in Hollywood Mary- Will Rwanda-Uganda agreement to ease tensions yield good re- land ________________________________________ 34 sults? ________________________________________ 11 Zimbabwe to Invest in Corporate Social Responsibility in Mining Friend or Foe? The Role of the Media in Fueling Tensions Between Sector to Consummate Global Standards. _______________ 35 Rwanda and Uganda _____________________________ 13 African Continental Free Trade Area will be beneficial for Camer- What future for Cameroon with life sentences of Separatist Lead- oon-Experts Say ________________________________ 38 ers? _________________________________________ 15 Zimbabwe's plant breeders aim to scale up production of African No! Cameroon won't breathe after Paul Biya _____________ 16 traditional vegetables market _______________________ 39 Robert Mugabe: Another African Revolutionary Leader Bows Roland Achenjang's soul-searching book; "Who and Why You Are" Out. ________________________________________ 17 hits the stands _________________________________ 40 Mugabe a leader among leaders ______________________ 20 Insight Into The Edewor Foundation __________________ 43 Ghana's Special Prosecutor; a cover for the rhetoric on the war Hommage a DJ Arafat: His legacy, music, impact, death and after- against corruption in Ghana or genuine intentions with bottle life _________________________________________ 44 necks? _______________________________________ 23 Verve Card Goes Global After Penning Landmark Agreement With The Mentor's Foundation is impacting lives of vulnerable Cameroo- Discover In New York _____________________________ 46 nians one project at a time _________________________ 26 Verve Goes Global ______________________________ 47 Jamestown to Jamestown: It's been 400 years, we are going back to Ghana _______________________________________ 28 Dogfight over Football in Cameroon: FECAFOOT suspends Camer- oon Professional League ___________________________ 48 Managing Editor Adama Makasuba, Graphic Designer Pan African Visions Ajong Mbapndah L Bah Uzman Unis, Atemnkeng Jerry M, Mohammed M Mupenda, (Young Jerry) 7614 Green Willow Court, Hyattsville, MD Contributors Pierre Afadhali EC designs, Abudhabi - UAE 20785 Wallace Mawire Teslim Olawore +971 52 863 7744 Deng Machol Nevson Mpofu [email protected] Tel: 2404292177, Papisdaff Abdullah Boris Esono Nwenfor email: [email protected], Ajayi Olyinka Amos Fofung Prince Kuripati [email protected] Jean d’Amour Mugabo Hategeka Moses Jessica Ahedor _______ Asong Zelifac Samuel Ouma Advertising Primus Tazanu Email: Alexandre Nhampossa, marketing@ Ishmael Sallieu panafricanvisions.com Koroma, PAV - APR. 2019 - MAG 0419 Vol 3 1 PAN AFRICAN VISIONs Inside Africa Of Giants with Clay Feet and South Africa's Horror Show By Ajong Mbapndah L ust when many Africa has been looking for, Buhari has remained mute, thought that Africa the responses to the recent and in a very disturbing Jwas finally hitting attacks from the South precedence, leaders of the the fast lane towards the African government are a Anglophone movement greatness that should go with reminder that we may have were arrested in Nigeria and its unquestionably immense been looking in the wrong whisked off to Cameroon potential, from South Africa place. under circumstances that came disturbing, shocking, In the last few months, remain unclear and given life and traumatizing scenes of the African Continental Free sentences in jail. xenophobia which may have Trade Agreement has been When leadership is devastating repercussions on launched, the Economic forfeited, foreigners come the continent. Community of West African to the rescue and in the Nigerians in particular, States has embarked on a Cameroon situation, instead and pockets of other African laudable initiative towards its of Nigeria, South Africa Nationals in Mandela’s own common currency-the or even the African Union country, came under attack ECO. In these developments helping to facilitate talks in the most brutal, and and more, Africans have seen for a peaceful solution, it is ruthless of manners from additional reasons to hope, Switzerland that is offering to ethnic South Africans. It is hope for greater integration do so. not the first time, not even and eventually the united In this abysmal failure of Ajong Mbapndah L, Managing Editor the second or third that we and strong Africa that many leadership, Africans need to are witnessing such scenes. yearn for. With the South bond more than ever. The Beyond the gory nature of the Africa horror show, even the Nigeria and much of Africa has few attributes of the problems facing the ordinary attacks, the levity with which very strong hearted, and die- may have been united in kind of leadership that could everyday South African, the South African authorities hard optimists find it hard to condemnation of the attacks marshall Nigeria and Africa are the same in Nigeria, in responded may be the bigger shirk the despondency that in South Africa, it must be to greatness. President Cameroon, in Mozambique, problem. this may bring. recognized that the situation Ramaphosa has very little in Malawi, and others. It Alongside Nigeria, South In South Africa’s hour of is no different in Nigeria with excuses, he has been more of is high unemployment; it Africa is supposed to be need, the rest of the continent killings along religious and a President in waiting for a is public resources at the the other giant that pulls responded. When South ethnic lines, with galloping long time, if the xenophobic service of a few instead of the the rest of Africa towards Africans had no home, the rest unemployment, endemic attacks were a test of his majority. It is leaders rushing greatness. Since the end of of Africa offered them one, corruption, and a leadership leadership, he certainly to European hospitals at the apartheid, and the emergence Africa opened its frontiers that does not inspire much flunked big time with his slightest ailment whereas of black majority rule in for them. When the rest of confidence. Many may not response. their own hospitals back the early 90s, Africans have the world watched passively even remember that at one Talking of a failure in home are left to ruins. looked up to South Africa as South Africans suffered point, Nigeria had to expel leadership, one of the We have remained for leadership, for the right from the brunt of apartheid, Ghanaians in large numbers countries that readily comes consistent in opining that examples that the rest of the it is the rest of Africa that who sort refuge there. to mind is Cameroon where there is no shortage of ideas, continent could emulate, gave them a shoulder to lean Nigeria and South Africa, the Anglophone crisis has there is no shortage of talent. from President Mandela, on. When the leadership in the giants that Africa is metamorphosed into a In this September issue of to Thabo Mbeki, Jacob South Africa fails to cater to counting on both have clay virtual civil. Thousands PAV, we discuss the shrinking Zuma and now President the needs of its own people, feet. That Nigeria should be have been killed, thousands democratic space in Africa Ramaphosa. The task is foreigners become the easy one of the last countries to have become refugees and with a heavy dose of emphasis understandable enormous, target. join the African Continental close to a million kids in on the Cameroon enigma with maybe the expectations have As we fault the South Free Trade Agreement the English-speaking North Dr Christopher Fomunyoh, been too high, we can go on African government, so too speaks volumes about its West, and South West Senior Associate for Africa and on about the reasons , should we fault the leadership leadership. President Buhari Regions of the country have and Regional Director at but the stark fact remains in Nigeria and many other goes at his pace, and beyond not been to school for some the National Democratic that if leadership is what African countries. 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