Beyond the summit of Mount Moroto, in the Moroto District of northeast Uganda’s Karamoja Region, another peak touches the sky ahead.

John Sicelo Vilane was born in the Mafucula community in Eastern Swaziland in 1984; a year after his parents had been evicted from the village of Mbuluzi near the border to Mozambique, and relocated to Mafucula –which in siSwati literally means “having been thrown away” – by order of Swaziland’s

On receiving the news of Samir Amin’s death, one of the first thoughts that struck me was that two of my greatest mentors have passed this way: tumours discovered quite suddenly.

In this New Year 2019 we should take some time to restate some of the basic points on the current movement for Igbo independence from Nigeria.

The United Sates has “officially” recognised a self-proclaimed president of Venezuela as the country’s president while the rightists are trying to create chaos on Caracas streets.

Mohamed Mayara, media activist and co-founder and coordinator of Equipe Media that documents human rights violations in Africa’s last colony Western Sahara, was physically assaulted and injured his cheek and other parts of

Like many African countries, Zimbabwe’s economy needs sustainable resuscitation.

Arguably, the core problem for a country like Uganda, is the absence of a culture of having rules that govern everybody and to which every actor is subject. Rule-based behaviour is the hallmark of modern society.

This angle and this perspective, I believe, coincide with and describe the general position of the Nigerian Left. By “general position”, I mean an ideological – political position to which every tendency of the movement, which considers itself both Left and Nigerian ought to subscribe.

“When copies of the Kinyarwanda editions of my children’s books were delivered from Kigali recently, I counted the books and realised that it was the 50th language on the shelf.