Comment & analysis

County Judge Sterling Schrock sentenced the leader of the Black Autonomy Network Community Organisation (BANCO), Reverend Edward Pinkney, to 30 - 120 months in prison based on five felony counts of forgery by an all-white jury.

Mugambi Kiai in 1996 established the following truth: “The failure of the constitution to protect the conditions for democracy can generally be attributed to a) an overloading of powers onto the executive as opposed to the legislature and judiciary b) the lack of specific definitions in qualifyin

The election of President Obama in 2008 was a moment of big hope for minorities in the US and for blacks in particular.

The 10th of December has been celebrated around the world since 1950 when the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed that day as the Human Rights Day, to bring to the attention of the peoples of the world the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the common standard of achievement for all

There is no shortage of financiers with personal, corporate, partisan and/or shady external interests who are willing to provide financial support to political parties and their candidates, especially during political campaigns.

Just over a week after thousands of people took to the streets in protest and outrage following the Ferguson grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer for fatally shooting an unarmed black teenager, we are faced with the reality that a New York grand jury - tasked with determinin

From the outside Namibia looks just like South Africa with vast and growing income inequalities, high unemployment and a national politics dominated by their liberation struggle as well as a colonial and pre-independence history, as if not more brutal than South Africa’s.

An impression is forming that the South African government is hostile to global business thanks to its recent cancellation of a few bilateral investment treaties (BITs).

Before the onset of the Ebola crisis, there were many things about the food habits of Ghanaians that I knew little about. I have always seen bats as a mere nuisance.

The 2014 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ two-day summit hosted by China, took place against the backdrop of the spread of the Ebola epidemic, which has devastated a number of West African countries.