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81. What Africa will look like in 100 years

As Africa's population looks set to quadruple over the twenty-first century, The Telegraph digs into the data to reveal the opportunities - and challenges - facing a fast-changing continent.

82. Rwanda: Liberation by numbers?

Rwanda is lauded as a world leader in women’s political participation. International accolades abound. In 2007, Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda, was presented with the African Gender Award. In…

83. To break or to build: The choice now facing Uganda’s opposition

Last Thursday afternoon, in downtown Kampala, a crowd of a hundred boda-boda(motorbike taxi) drivers gathered for a victory parade. To the front of their bikes they attached posters of Yoweri…

84. Fighting to Work: Employment, Not Militias, will Determine Uganda’s Future Stability

Rebecca Tapscott argues that Uganda’s Crime Preventer program is not just another manifestation of African electoral violence. It is a day-to-day strategy of governing and controlling one of the most…

85. A system of privilege and benefits: is a global tax body needed?

The Panama Papers have pulled back the curtain, revealing how tax wizards push and pull the levers of the global system to benefit elites. The fact that tax havens and offshore accounts are used by…

86. From $2,000 for a limb to $75,000 for a 'complete set' or corpse: shocking new report on albino killings in Africa

Eight months ago the UN hired an independent expert, Ikponwosa Ero, to monitor and track human rights abuses against people living with albinism. In her first report, which was released a week ago to…

87. The world looks away as blood flows in Burundi

Thierry wants to talk, but chokes on memories of blows and stabs punctuated by the sound of his father pleading for his life before masked men hacked him to death. He shrinks into himself, cold and…

88. Analysis: The Panama Papers are the tip of a very dirty African iceberg

The murky world of offshore companies is suddenly marginally less murky – with potentially disastrous consequences for dodgy leaders and crooked businessmen. For African countries, who are…

89. U.S.-Africa Relations in the Age of Mutual Misunderstanding

A quarter century since the end of the Cold War, the relationship between Global North and South remains fraught with misconceptions. Diplomatic relations, trade, economic cooperation, and security…

90. Nkandla verdict shows South Africa's democracy is alive and kicking

It’s not a good look for a young democracy when its president is convicted in the country’s highest court of failing to respect the constitution. In finding President Jacob Zuma guilty of exactly…