Comment & analysis

Before TrustAfrica was set up, there was no African foundation that worked at a continental level explicitly on issues with regional and continental dimensions.[1] The very scale of Africa’s problems was potentially paralysing.

'Wow! We did well!' Township youth org achieves excellent results yet again: 87% matric pass rate, with 78% eligible for tertiary study

7 January 2010

Nigerian President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has promised firmly that he will deliver credible elections in 2011. He seems to be working very hard to convince everyone that he means business.

Last October, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) missed an opportunity to join other countries implementing the transparency initiative to be designated as an EITI-compliant country.

Alfred Bernard Nobel (1833–96) was a Swedish chemist and engineer who made a fortune through the invention of dynamite, cordite and ballistite, the start of a very successful arms manufacturing business.

‘All roads lead to China’, Alan Paton may be chuckling from a place that Professor Ali Mazrui calls ‘After Africa’.

‘Watajikaanga na mafuta yao’ (They will fry themselves with their own fat) was a daily slogan spoken by the former Kenyan president Daniel Toroitich arap Moi for many years whenever he addressed a crowd of Kenyans. President Moi stopped relaying the above message to Kenyans in 1989.

The situation in Cote d’Ivoire is extremely sad and disturbing. Since the results of the 28 November run-off election were made public by the Independent Electoral Commission, outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo has defied international pressure and is clinging tenaciously to power.

I visited home recently and had cause to attend the burial ceremony of a friend’s relative in a community known as Famgbe near Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. There were several things that caught my attention during the ceremony, including the rich culture of the Ijaw people.

The competitive society and prejudices generate a violence that must be combated by school. Teaching how to live together is fundamental, knowing oneself first in order to know and respect others in their diversity.