I am speaking with an executive of a multi-national company with offices in Nigeria and I bring up the fact that Nuhu Ribadu, Nigeria's informally exiled anti-corruption czar has returned to his position as head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. He all but responded, "Nu, who?" and he...

The world breathed a collective sigh of exasperation last week as it was discovered that Zimbabwe hosts a sizable diamond depository. So sizable in fact that Zimbabwe could become one of the largest suppliers of diamonds in the world, according to UN experts. Not only would this help prop up...

I was having a few drinks with friends the other night at a dark bar in Paris. Much like my last HP posting, my company was principally African.

We were talking about all sorts of things, from how much we loved one of our co-hort's, Parselelo Kantai's, new fiction...

On the importance of tailoring country-specific anti-corruption laws.

I wish I could tell you what corruption is, but I can't. I have worked in it, lived in it and experienced it throughout my life. Indeed, we all have. But neither I, nor any corruption expert worth his over-priced education,...

I didn't know much about Alzheimer's before watching "I Remember Better When I Paint" and nor did I really care. I'm not a monster-- it's just that the disease had never affected anyone I knew. This is not to say I was indifferent to the suffering experienced by those with...