Comment & analysis

Identifying the essence of the nation has become a hobbyhorse for South Africans. Like the constant chatter about race and social position, questions such as ‘who are we?’ and ‘where did we come from?’ are everyday fodder.

Speaking at the 67th UN general assembly on 26 September 2013, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe rebuked the United States of America and the United Kingdom for imposing ‘illegal and filthy sanctions’ on Zimbabwe.

I must come out of my procrastinating den in Doha and key in few words about the circumstances surrounding the terrorist attacks in Nairobi’s Westgate Mall.

Anyone who follows the plight of Somalia should be elated by the news of Somali groups reaching an agreement on their differences.

It seems that the African continent's name is so much associated with wars, famine, ethnic cleansing and brutal corrupt dictatorships. That's what we keep hearing in the Western mainstream media and that's what we get from the Western political discourse.

If there is nothing else that readers should take from discussions swirling around such au courant buzzwords like “food security” and “ecosystem service,” it is the understanding that the invisible hand of the market has taken phantasmagoric form and has situated itself nicely alongside less fash

In 2003, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) was transformed into the African Union (A.U) and acquired a new mandate of fostering regional integration and sustainable socio-economic development of the continent. The new mandate focused on bringing positive impact on African citizens.

To say that the new state of South Sudan, a country with over 80 percent of its population illiterate and more than 50 percent living below the poverty-line, is facing huge challenges in kick-starting her economic development is no exaggeration.

In practice, the ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) has progressively reduced the space for other political forces to operate in the country. For now, political space in Rwanda is completely closed to political parties that are not co-opted into the RPF monopolistic machinery.

Now the ruins of slavery are cleared, we can proceed to build the Afrikan federation, the same way artists create a monument when ruins clear (civilizations in this case).