Comment & analysis

The other week Twitter became the unlikely host of a non-scripted online debate on Sino-African relations.

Malawi is one of the most aid dependent countries in the world.

Nigeria’s celebrated novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is an interviewer’s delight, whether she is talking about Nigeria, novels, feminism or hair.

“The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their “vital interests” are menaced, and think n

As captured in the equality clause of South Africa’s Bill of Rights, “everyone is equal before the law”, wherein “equality includes the full and equal enjoyment of all rights and freedoms”.

On 5 May, more than 100 parliamentarians signed a letter calling on President Hassan to resign immediately.

Vegetables grown on African farms are sold in retail outlets in Europe and the Middle East, while the aroma of coffee, tea and cocoa grown in her fields fills the air in most coffee and confectionery shops, outside of which the scent of flowers grown with her water fills the sidewalks.

“New South Africa” boasts of being a “democracy.” Indeed, in some areas that are not fundamental to democracy such as homosexual marriages, “sex workers,” “abortion on demand,” and an education system that allows a pass mark of 30 percent; this “democracy” is excelling.

It is the question of leadership within the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) that brought South Sudan to the current shame of devastating rebellion.

Almost everything I’ve read about Maya Angelou since her death lists her various occupations and achievements, with some permutations.