Firoze Manji

Slum tourism has become all the rage. There has been John Le Carré’s ‘The Constant Gardener’ that made Nairobi’s Kibera famous, Gregory David Robert’s semi-fiction, ‘Shantaram’, set in the slums of Mumbai and a host of others.

Ten years ago, on 14 October 1999, a giant died and left a cavern in our consciousness, if not in our conscience: Julius Kambarage Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania, known to us all as ‘Mwalimu’, a name that, as Nawal El Saadawi

International media attention is focused this week on the visit of the US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, to seven countries in Africa.

Good morning. It is an honor for me to be in Accra, and to speak to the representatives of the people of Ghana. I am deeply grateful for the welcome that I've received, as are Michelle, Malia, and Sasha Obama.

A giant of Pan-Africanism has fallen.

That is the overwhelming view of the hundreds who have written tributes to Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem since the tragedy happened.

K. Kwaa Prah (2007) ‘Africa and China: Then and Now’, in F Manji and Stephen Marks (eds) African Perspectives on China in Africa. Oxford/Nairobi: Fahamu, pp. 57–61.