Comment & analysis

Perhaps we need to examine South Africa’s national dialogue. Yes, including and beyond Mr. Thamsanqa Jantjie, the vagary of the Nelson Mandela memorial.

Remember the names Garrick Hopkins, Carl Hopkins, McKenzie Cochran, Darrin Manning, and Charda Gregory. They are the latest victims of the unofficial but very real lynch law that has ruled America for centuries.

It is a point of historical controversy whether or not when told that French peasants did not have bread to eat, Marie Antoinette uttered the phrase “Let them eat cake,” an even more inaccessible and scarce food for poor people.

“Who owns history? Not even the ones who made it.”Kumasi, Black August Organizing Committee

“Believe it,” said the current Prevaricator-in-Chief, in the conclusion to his annual litany lies.

In the days before this year's State of the Union address, we heard a lot about how Barack Obama was finally about to unleash the mighty executive powers of his office to accomplish some of the many great things he's always wanted to accomplish, those mostly unspecified things which evil and immo

The Constitution requires the president to “…from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union….” Regardless of what the framers of the constitution intended, this event has devolved into empty theatrics, worthless punditry and outright lies.

The flying geese model is a well-known phenomenon in East Asia. In Japan, particularly, it’s widely accepted to be the only theory that can explain the historical correlation between industrialization of Japan and the other economies in East Asia.

Recent statements by some Zambian politicians that the country’s rate of population growth of around 3% is too high are misplaced.

Visiting your alma mater brings some nostalgic feelings of the good and not-so-good times. However, when your former institution of learning seems to be moving from bad to worse, the nostalgia turns to repugnance.