Comment & analysis

I left South Africa temporarily in late August 2010 to pursue a programme on Human Rights with the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University in New York.

From the 17 to 20 November 2010, local communities and indigenous people gathered at Miklin Hotel, East Legon in Accra, Ghana to participate in a consultative meeting to discuss modalities for the development of a grant mechanism for inclusion of indigenous peoples and local communities in countr

In Chinua Achebe’s ‘A Man of the People’, Chief Nanga, a rather interesting character, is described by the narrator Odilli as a man of the people, and indubitably the most approachable politician in the country. He is also Nigeria’s minister of culture in the novel, set in this country.

This year, as the world political leaders reviewed and discussed the progress so far made in achieving the celebrated United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) there has been a lot of media attention paid to the MDGs.

On Thursday 18 November, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell promised to stump up funds to ensure developing countries are better heard in climate negotiations.

10th December marks the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.

The careless and highly inflammatory remarks about homosexuals made by Prime Minister Raila Odinga have understandably led to outrage among civil society and gay rights activists in Kenya and in the diaspora.

There is heavy emphasis on the occupation and place of work of the dead in death and funeral announcements in Kenya, said a columnist, writing in the Daily Nation of 13 September 2009.

Through its focus on the greening of economic growth, international work recognises that different patterns of economic growth lead to different outcomes for ecological integrity and therefore for human well-being, and critically, for varying types of economic benefit.

Like all young black people who have consciously made an attempt to improve their lives, I now live in an area previously reserved for whites. Not far from where I am staying, there is one primary school and two high schools.