by Fikiria Magazine | May 27, 2025 | Profiles, People, Leadership
In a business world obsessed with growth, the back-office is often the last place people look. Strategy gets the headlines, marketing gets the budgets, and operations get the fires to put out. But somewhere between the invoices not sent, the forecasts not updated, and...
by Fikiria Magazine | May 25, 2025 | Global & Regional
Diplomacy often comes dressed in ceremony, fluffed up with photo ops, padded talking points, and carefully brewed optimism. During the recent state visit between South Africa and the United States, Washington brought its usual latte diplomacy to the table –...
by Fikiria Magazine | May 23, 2025 | Global & Regional
In the theatre of geopolitics, some leaders sip power gently – and some gulp it down. Donald Trump, now back in the Oval Office and still a perennial disruptor, prefers to gulp. His diplomatic style, if it could be called that, is more deal table than tea table,...
by Fikiria Magazine | May 18, 2025 | Global & Regional
In a world obsessed with force, there is something revolutionary about restraint. Burkina Faso – a country often overlooked in global headlines – is rewriting its own story not through borrowed policies or imported ideologies, but through bold leadership...
by Fikiria Magazine | May 17, 2025 | Global & Regional
The world has changed, but the institutions guiding it still wear yesterday’s suits. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the United Nations – a structure built in the aftermath of war, functioning in the shadow of power, and reacting to global crises with the...
