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Osita Ebiem
2013-05-30, Issue 632
For the cultural initiative to accomplish its good intentions in Africa, it needs to take into cognizance in its plans the cultural and ethnic diversities as well as the size of Africa. The continent is too big and diverse to be treated as a mono-cultural entity
Somalia: IHS Jane’s spin on Jubbaland trap
Mohamud M Uluso
2013-05-16, Issue 630
The principal drivers of the Somali crisis are identifiable foreign powers exploiting the vulnerabilities of the Somali people rooted in clan rivalry, poverty, religion and selfish ambitious personalities
Kingsley Kuku and his co-apostles of anarchy
Uche Igwe
2013-05-16, Issue 630
Some of President Jonathan’s close allies are threatening, or prophesying, violence in Nigeria should he fail to be re-elected in 2015. His opponents are not taking this lightly. This alarming talk is raising political temperatures in the already deeply divided nation
Before Nigeria loses the north...
Dayo Olaide
2013-05-16, Issue 630
Youth unemployment and hopelessness pose a serious threat to development and peace in the north. Increased initiatives and budget spending on youth unemployment, poverty alleviation and empowerment programmes are quite positive. If sustained, these programmes could reduce the risk of violence
Dr Dipo Fashina: Farewell to the last standing man
Adewale Stephen
2013-05-16, Issue 630
What credits one’s life is not how much wealth he has piled up for himself but how good he has done for the rest of humanity. Dr Oladipo Fashina was very careful to ensure that he autographed his deeds with excellence
Principles PAC members must remember
Motsoko Pheko
2013-05-16, Issue 630
The greatest enemy against achievement is negativity. And victory isn’t cheap; it’s accomplished through sweat, tears and braving betrayal from within
Why Supreme Court of Kenya dismissed Raila Odinga’s election petition
Miguna Miguna
2013-05-09, Issue 629
The recent ruling by the Supreme Court upholding the election of Uhuru Kenyatta as president of Kenya has been dismissed by a number of legal analysts as ‘shallow’, ‘unconvincing’ and based on questionable precedents. But petitioner Raila Odinga’s former aide defends it
Will the Java generation please stand up?
Abdullahi Boru Halakhe
2013-05-09, Issue 629
It seems that Kenya’s middle class of shoppers at Java have become complacent with constitutional change at a time when they should be pushing for further implementation of the constitution
Is African peace keeping mission in DRC doomed to fail?
Bu Nizar Visram
2013-05-09, Issue 629
With the recent loss of 12 South African troops in the Central African Republic and the US bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq, the extent to which an African peace keeping mission will meet a similar fate seems likely
Africa must be in control of its fortune
Winnie Byanyima
2013-05-08, Issue 629
As the World Economic Forum meets in Cape Town this week [8-10 May], they must commit to implementing programs that will assist the millions being left behind by economic growth. Otherwise, social and economic progress on the continent will be undermined
The president must hear this
Abdulrazaq Magaji
2013-05-08, Issue 629
Warnings that there will be war if Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is not re-elected in 2015 are an anathema to genuine democracy, tolerance and fair play in Africa’s most populous nation that should be leading by example
What the Oga at the top doesn’t know
Tunde Oyateru
2013-05-09, Issue 629
The government should have capitalised on a recent embarrassing incident in which an official was exposed as incompetent to mount a major PR coup against its critics. But it is too optimistic to expect state bureaucrats in Nigeria to see rare opportunities thrust right under their noses
Kenyan workers should strengthen spirit of solidarity
Julius Okoth
2013-05-08, Issue 629
There is a genuine concern that trade unions and its leadership have failed to protect workers and that trade unions are dens of corruption in Kenya. There is a need to revive a genuine trade union movement that protects workers’ rights and promotes workers’ solidarity
What new government should address first at Coast
Nagib Shamsan
2013-05-09, Issue 629
The unresolved land question at the Kenyan coast has continued to stagnate development, stoke negative ethnicity and create squatters. Successive governments have displayed lamentable laxity in carrying out the required reforms. The people need to push the new administration on this urgent matter
Challenges of transition
Wongai Zhangazha
2013-05-09, Issue 629
Violence across Africa is often fueled by political elites who try to cling to power. They play on tribal historic injustices and often leave the poor to fight each other. Transitional processes in the post-conflict societies of Kenya and Zimbabwe are yet to fully achieve their goals
May Day and failure of the mainstream immigrant rights movement
Ajamu Baraka
2013-05-09, Issue 629
The American immigrant rights movement has failed because it allowed itself to be influenced by the paternalism and conservative politics of the liberal non-profit industrial complex and the interests of the Democratic Party
Should Kenya leave her oil in the soil?
Martin Oulu
2013-05-01, Issue 628
With the recent discovery of oil in Kenya there needs to be a debate as to whether the country follows the path of Ecuador and Norway and leave the oil in the soil or the environmentally and people damaging path of oil exploration in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
Swaziland: press freedom crisis
Richard Rooney
2013-05-01, Issue 628
Freedom of the press and the existence of political parties do not exist in Africa’s only kingdom of Mswati III of Swaziland. The fine imposed on the publisher of the Nation magazine by the Swazi High Court continues the suffocation of the Swazi press and journalists.
Watching American diplocrisy in Ethiopia
Diplomacy by hypocrisy is ‘diplocrisy’
Alemayehu G Mariam
2013-05-01, Issue 628
The US has been practicing diplocrisy in Ethiopia for the past two decades. It has propped up the regime of the late Meles Zenawi with billions of dollars of ‘development’ and ‘humanitarian’ aid while filling the stomachs of starving Ethiopians with empty words and emptier promises.
Nigeria’s amnesty and its infinitesimal calculus
Okachikwu Dibia
2013-05-02, Issue 628
The decision by the Jonathan administration to grant amnesty to Boko Haram does not inspire much hope, given that similar steps have not solved the problem of militant groups in the past. A national congress on the future of Nigeria is needed
Somalia’s priority: national integration for economic recovery
Mohamud M Uluso
2013-05-02, Issue 628
More international talks on Somalia are lined up; international financial institutions are ready for business with the recovering nation...All this portends good for Somalia and Somalis should not squander this chance to restore their nation to peace and prosperity
Racist motive of Boston Marathon bombers?
Biko Agozino
2013-05-02, Issue 628
The bombers may have dreamt of finding the final solution to the domination of their chosen sports by people of African descent
Menelik Education's position on violence against women and girls in DRC
Dr Theodore Menelik-Mfuni
2013-05-02, Issue 628
Brutal crimes of violence against women and girls have massively increased and become pervasive in the country.
National constitution convention in Zambia lost plot on human rights
Anneke Meerkotter
2013-04-23, Issue 627
At the recent convention, debates on what was initially a very progressive draft constitution became a distorted fascination with limiting rights as opposed to ensuring their universality
Reflections on a Brazilian soap opera and Pan-Africanism
Edwin Rwigi
2013-04-23, Issue 627
How can ties of solidarity be strengthened between continental Africans and black movements in Brazil? To start with, a deep appreciation of a shared of heritage of the two peoples is necessary
Nigeria: Amnesty as double-edged sword
Abdulrazaq Magaji
2013-04-29, Issue 627
Let the government of Nigeria proceed with an amnesty for Boko Haram. But it should also announce a package of compensation for individuals and organizations that suffered injustice at the hands of terror group
Rebels and love in Central African Republic
Okello Oculi
2013-04-18, Issue 626
France has over the decades been a key player in the violent drama of Central African Republic politics. But there are other interested parties involved. CAR is a case study of how neo-colonial greed can destroy a country
The people shall obey
Richard Pithouse
2013-04-18, Issue 626
President Zuma’s speech seemed to equate criticism of the government with disloyalty. The path to national glory has been laid out and no one should ask any questions
The Struggle for Minimum Wage in Osun State
Kola Ibrahim
2013-04-18, Issue 626
For now, the Aregbesola-led Osun State government will be in euphoria for a major conquest of the labour movement with the bankrupt sell out of workers by their leaders over the full implementation of the nationally legislated N18, 000 minimum wage
Chávez has died, but the Bolivarian revolution continues
Samir Amin
2013-04-10, Issue 625
‘The death of Chávez is a great tragedy that saddens the Venezuelan people and all those who are fighting around the world for the same cause as what inspired the Bolivarian revolution'
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