Disagreements between countries about commercial rights to the continent are bound to increase in future, as the renewal date for the Madrid Protocol, due in 2048, approaches.
The African Commission on Human and Peoples Rightss, meanwhile, has issued a report saying that the Zimbabwean government should be investigated for gross human-rights abuses.But South Africa is not just being altruistic: its involvement in the rest of the continent is closely bound up with its own economic prospects.
Irrespective of the lack of government regulation and protection, Somalis have formed networks – both within the country and across borders and continents – that are bound together by ties of family and trust.
Hollande picked up the European theme, stressing the importance of the ties that have bound the continent in peace since the end of a second, even more terrible war: "The risk now is that we rediscover those national egotisms, those populisms, those xenophobias.
Geographers' flow-maps demonstrated the almost-perfect symmetry of the periphery-to-core migratory links which bound the continent together at this time, with the exception of Eastern Europe, blocked off by the migration barrier of the Iron Curtain Kingg, 1993; Salt & Clout, 1976).
When we, as Diasporans, collectively come together to bring our knowledge, resources, creativity and experiences back to the African continent - tremendous progress is bound to happen.
My mother was most animated by the footage of pilgrims leaving on ships in the sub-continent bound for Saudi Arabia.
"They aren't bound to strategies formed half a continent away.
That simple step, though, will be a historic one for a continent where national "flag carrier" airlines are still bound by notions of national pride and prestige.
Now he is truly one of the Three Amigos, bound by blood to defend our continent from Brexiteers and Donald Trumps everywhere.
Yet official corruption is bound to be more glaring on a continent where most people live in dire poverty.
