Comment & analysis

I came to Mwea in 1954 as a detainee having been captured by the colonialists; I was brought to Tembere, which by then was a vast wilderness inhabited by buffaloes and other wild animals and hardly any human beings.

As the sun sets in the remote border village of Dadajibula and residents take advantage of the cool blowing wind replacing the scorching sun, a group of women use the time to perform the rituals of female circumcision.

I may be a few months late on this, but it can never be too late to address a recurring theme.

Some years ago Italian anarchist Camillo Berneri suggested that while not always visible in the social practices of everyday European life, the racist foundation for European fascism was still present, safely confined to a space in the European psyche but always ready to explode in what he called

What is the future of farm workers in South Africa? From the experience of the past 20 years, it looks grim indeed. Nearly 1 million people were forcibly evicted from white-owned farms in the first ten years of democracy, and jobs were lost at an alarming rate.

INTRODUCTION

Nigeria is remarkably diverse. Whether you consider, ethnicity, religion or culture, you will find such incredible diversity that makes you wonder how this collection of peoples could possibly have lived together for a century.

A few days after the figures of Nigeria’s rebased GDP were made public last week, “The Punch” newspaper carried a very frightening front page story about a young unemployed Nigerian, Sunday Omotayo, who wanted to commit suicide.

China’s relations with Africa has come under scrutiny recently, with more articles and books having been written about it in the last fifteen years than in the preceding fifty years all combined.

1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centres of imperialism (US, Western and central Europe, Japan (called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control over the Planet through a combination of: