Comment & analysis

The African Union (AU) has over 40 legal instruments, policy standards and decisions some of which Kenya has committed to and is at different stages of signing, ratifying, domesticating or adhering to.

National governance is at once one of the most practical and emotive features of the modern nation-state system.

Here are three reasons why Dr. Denis Mukwege, the recent laureate of the European Parliament Sakharov Prize, should not become another Congolese politician:

I do not think Nigerians have a difficult choice to make when they go to the polls on Valentine’s Day. It’s either they return the incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan, or replace him with the candidate of the main opposition party, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

As the world witnessed a fortnight ago, rarely have there been two dreadful massacres carried out almost simultaneously in two separate continents by two organisations surely operating autonomously but belonging to the same overarching religiopolitical agency.

For Western governments, financiers and opinion leaders, Rwandan president Paul Kagame offers a Faustian bargain: Overlook my brutal behavior, and I will offer you a model for economic growth in an African nation.

It is impossible to look back on 2014 without thinking about the devastation caused by the deadly Ebola virus.

How important are leaders to South Africa’s politics? Should they be allowed to make or break organisations?

INTRODUCTION

Colonialism is often understood as a system of domination reincarnated throughout history in manifold forms and manifestations. The question of what makes a political system explicitly colonial, and not – for that matter - simply exploitative, is hereby central.