Comment & analysis

The Zambian currency, the Kwacha, has now been ranked the worst performing currency in Africa already in 2014. This is not a palatable diagnosis and I am at odds to reconcile what I am stating with what is going on in my mind.

‘I am gay and I am catholic and I can not say it out because of fear of victimization. I realized that I was gay when I was 16. I was born like this and I know many of my friends who are gay.

The following gallery of the wealth titans of Africa is both impressive and sad in that it features the political leaders whose call is to serve and not rob their countries. The list, though incomplete and, the figures estimated, they are roughly representative of their net worth.

The mistakes of my life. Ah! I could go on and on and on about them. (Warning, I am aiming for your sympathy.) There are the missed opportunities.

In nations around the world, thousands of people will demonstrate in anger if the police do harm to a citizen. Not so in the United States. In this country a uniform provides a license to maim and to kill.

For slightly over 12 months since January 2012, I served as the Legal Advisor to the Prime Minister. It was a position that placed me at the highest levels of the Civil Service, with a pay grade of Job Group ‘U’, otherwise known as ‘PS level’.

The civilized world must feel horrified at the news of the brutal massacre of poor Nigerians in their course of striving for a better and decent job last Saturday, 15 March 2014.

In the public debate in Uganda on the new anti-gay law, as an external viewer of this society, I isolate some principal critiques. The first is linked to the international language of human rights, which emphasises the clear violation of those of a minority in the society.

Kenyans are without this maddening drive and take things at their own pace; it can be very riling for an outsider or a newcomer and it can also very interesting for the social observer.

The University of Namibia has admitted its first batch of students into a new Master’s in Gender and Development Studies degree programme, kindling hopes in a country grappling with gender-related problems that include violence in which scores of women have been brutally murdered.