Comment & analysis

Last year, Director of the Global Justice Now Nick Dearden said:

President Kenyatta took an unprecedented step in Kenya during his State of the Nation address at Parliament Buildings on March 26 when he tabled a list of corrupt individuals before the house.

The African Union characterized a recent armed attack that killed more than twenty foreign tourists and others at a Tunisian museum as “heinous and cowardly.” A connection between the five gunmen who staged the raid and terrorist groups has not been confirmed, but a link is suspected.

Various columnists and opposition politicians, whether from the Democratic Alliance or the Economic Freedom Fighters, have repeatedly called for President Jacob Zuma’s head. They want him out and it is often insinuated that if he were gone, things would be better in South Africa.

1. DON’T CROSS THE BOSS

It is time we analyzed or cracked open the narrative that is ‘Africa rising’.

US President George W. Bush declared war on terrorism on 12 September 2001. The previous day had witnessed an infamous terrorist attack that ended thousands of lives.

Despite their numerical majority, young people in Africa are still confronted with significant obstacles to participating in economic, social and political circles.

‘Bafana, bam seater nikhulumane iqiniso nyakunya!’
[‘You boys had better start talking the truth because you’re going to shit yourselves.’">

At critical times when nations found themselves at crossroads, it has almost always been a General that stepped forward to check a certain slide into anarchy. Nigeria is at a crossroads and gradually being run aground by an inept and clueless government at the centre.