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Gado
2012-07-18, Issue 594
Trouble in Congo, again
Gado
2012-07-18, Issue 594
Orengo's Sh0.5 million suit
Gado
2012-07-18, Issue 594
Iran-Kenya oil deal
Gado
2012-07-11, Issue 593
The Dead Horse Theory
The unfailing productivity study for govenments
2012-07-05, Issue 592
The tribal wisdom of the Plains Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that: "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."
However, in government more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
And, of course...
13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
Barclays scandal
Gado
2012-07-05, Issue 592
Rio+20
Gado
2012-06-28, Issue 591
Twenty years of Rio: Assessing the progress.
The winner in Egypt
Gado
2012-06-28, Issue 591
Celebrating victory in Egypt's presidential elections.
Egypt's new president
Gado
2012-06-28, Issue 591
President Morsi's pledge of service to all is quite sincere, isn't it?
Al Bashir cornered
Gado
2012-06-14, Issue 589
The Sudanese president who is wanted by the International Criminal Court to face war crimes and crimes against humanity charges over Darfur could not travel to Malawi to attend an AU summit. The AU changed the venue to Addis Ababa after President Banda of Malawi said her government would collaborate with the ICC.
Gado: Janet Museveni for president
2012-06-05, Issue 588
Change is about to sweep Ugandan politics after decades of Museveni rule...
Diamond jubilee, Diamond injustice
Gado
2012-06-07, Issue 588
The world joins the Queen of England to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee on the throne.
The Greek Tragedy?
Gado
2012-05-31, Issue 587
Help is in for Greece, sure...
Ocampo moves from the ICC to FIFA
Gado
2012-05-31, Issue 587
Luis Moreno-Ocampo will now be appearing in sport news.
Political degrees
Gado
2012-05-10, Issue 584
Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga last week arrived in Nairobi in full graduation attire from the US where a college conferred on him an honorary doctorate, his third.
France's new president and austerity
Gado
2012-05-10, Issue 584
Gado welcomes new French president.
Saving Europe
Gado
2012-03-08, Issue 574
The West is seeking help for the financial crisis from unlikely quarters.
Tax: Sex Workers vs. MPs
Gado
2012-03-08, Issue 574
Kenya's commercial sex workers say they are ready to pay. MPs don't.
Senegal's Wade at 85
Gado
2012-03-01, Issue 572
Numbers can be pretty confusing at election time.
Museveni and Uganda's new oil wealth
Gado
2012-03-01, Issue 572
Everyone in Uganda is enjoying the windfall from oil.
Nigeria's Boko Haram
Gado
2012-02-23, Issue 571
How is successful has the Nigerian security forces been in dealing with the Boko Haram menace?
Robert Mugabe at 88
Gado
2012-02-23, Issue 571
The Zimbabwean president is amazingly still going strong.
Hatching season
Gado
2012-02-23, Issue 571
Kenya is headed to elections. How are the politicians going about their campaigns?
African leaders and their wealth
Gado
2012-02-23, Issue 571
How much do they own?
And then there were 4...And then there were 2
Gado
2012-01-26, Issue 567
The International Criminal Court has confirmed charges against four of the six Kenyans suspected of masterminding the post-election violence of 2007/8.
Investors flock South Sudan
Gado
2012-01-26, Issue 567
Many Kenyans are heading to the new Republic of South Sudan as investors.
Equitorial Guinea co-hosts Africa Cup of Nations
Gado
2012-01-26, Issue 567
Africa Cup of Nations a tribute to President Nguema?
Mr Jonathan, Oga, your luck is no good for Nigeria!
Gado
2012-01-18, Issue 566
Gado thinks recent protests in Nigeria prove that the president may have run out of luck.
Yousou Ndour's new album
Gado
2012-01-12, Issue 565
Gado's take on the celebrated Senegalese musician's announcement that he will run for president in elections this year....
How to avoid a deputy CJ moment
Gado
2012-01-12, Issue 565
Kenya's Deputy Chief Justice Nancy Baraza is under investigation by the judiciary and police after a guard at a supermarket in Nairobi claimed that the judge threatened to shoot her when she (the guard) requested to search Baraza before she could be ...
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