In Abuja, this week, it was apparent that Africans are yearning to set their own agenda, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Over 100,000 people gathered last weekend in Brazil for the fifth World Social Forum, the annual meeting of the "global justice movement". Alistair Alexander reports from Porto Alegre

There was a whiff of Porto Alegre to this year's Davos meetings, but "equitable globalisation" is not philanthropy, writes Faiza Rady

A week o French government listen, asks Jeremy Landor in Paris