Comment & analysis

Breathe me clear
Breathe me safe
Breathe me home

–Shailja Patel, Screaming

Can a new constitution transform a society from its history of oppression, injustice, corruption and the marginalisation of the politically weak into one where the rule of law and social justice reign supreme?

October 6, 2014
Clan Federalism: The worst option for state building in Somalia

“A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.

"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences." - Audre Lorde

Kenyans learned a very expensive lesson the other week: that the President is like the Titanic, very difficult to turn around. Or, to put it more accurately, that eating presidential humble pie can be a costly national exercise.

The Russian market has always been attractive for many Western and European countries, which have exported their agricultural products including fruits and vegetables for high profits.

Karuturi Global Ltd, the Indian multinational that made its name in the global cut flower industry and recently acquired more than 300,000 ha in Ethiopia to produce food for foreign markets, is continuing its painful and massive decline.

In February 2015, Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria, will be holding its general elections to elect leaders into sub-national and national executive and legislative arms of government.

In March of 2011 I accompanied Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide on his trip home to Haiti following years of forced exile in South Africa.