Comment & analysis

Bring back our girls. The message is a simple one that resonates with millions of people around the world. Those four words were first seen in a now famous twitter hashtag in the aftermath of the kidnapping of 280 teenagers from a school in Chibok, Nigeria on April 14, 2014.

Global inequality is a topic du jour. It’s on the lips of everyone from the NGOs to the UN to the Davos set, and rightly so. Oxfam’s recent unearthing of the fact that the richest 85 people have the same wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion is truly shocking to anyone with a conscience.

The hypocrisy of race discourse in the U.S. is breathtaking.

Incredibly contrasting and equally disturbing media operations exist in South Sudan. I have recently worked in East Africa and closely observed the ways in which the media contributes and quickly spreads deadly communal violence in South Sudan and elsewhere on the continent.

For almost all of us Rwandans, we know how much suffering we are undergoing. We are a fearful nation. On every hill we live in fear, anger, suspicion, and uncertain of the future. We are in jails in Rwanda. We are in jails in Arusha, and even when are free, we cannot go back home as free people.

Democracy is a political system that most African people have contested, challenged, questioned and ultimately perceived as flawed. According to generally accepted definition, democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Countries that are the focus of these reports of phenomenal growth such as Nigeria and Ghana are undergoing internal crises related to the rising cost of living and the need to expand government spending on infrastructural development.

Britain had in 1913 allocated five million African people 7% of their own land against 93% to its 349,837 colonial European settlers.

Opposition parties were colluding with “tentacles” from outside South Africa to unseat the ANC, alleged the ruling party’s chairwoman Baleka Mbete at a meeting for young professionals recently in Cape Town.

Retired Zimbabwean High Court Judge, Justice Simpson Mtambanengwe says it would be grossly naïve for anyone to expect former colonialists not to denigrate Zimbabwe’s land redistribution policy after that policy literally snatched bread out of their mouths.