Comment & analysis

Can we classify the scholarship of the master-classifier Ali A. Mazrui? Mazrui had a special liking and gift for classifying different concepts, events and processes in original way.

Revolutionary Cuba has always been a miracle and gift to all humankind.

The story of Africa in the last century is one characterized by action and response. It was a century in which Western actions towards Africa were met with an African reply, and vice-versa.

Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, the countries most affected by the outbreak of Ebola virus are geographically far from Kenya, but to the countries we depend on for tourists, Ebola is in Africa and so is Kenya.

For weeks, ANC leaders have been attempting to ‘mediate’ between the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) and the African National Congress (ANC)/South African Communist Party (SACP) faction within the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu).

In 2005, early in her first term as Minister of Housing, Lindiwe Sisulu announced that the state had resolved to ‘eradicate slums’ by 2014.

Despite an unprecedented number of foreign interventions particularly since 2000, Somalia lingers on as a failed state, which is a threat to the international peace and security.

It’s 30 years since Michael Buerke’s harrowing report of a ‘biblical famine’ reached BBC TV screens. Following a year of cynical government inaction and silence, Bob Geldof launched a frenzied celebrity campaign to get aid to the famine-hit regions.

Famine in Ethiopia is a topic that horrifies me.

In my masters thesis at City University, London, titled: ‘NGOs and the Media: Friends or Enemies?