Comment & analysis

Zimbabwe is once again an eye opener to all Africans who value their national sovereignty and control of their country’s mineral wealth and other Africa’s national resources for their people. The sustained attack on Zimbabwe is an economic war by imperialist Western countries on Africa.

In December 2012 in Doha Qatar, something significant shifted in the world of climate change politics: the collection of national governments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the body responsible for global climate governance, officially admitted our collective fai

During the 1960s to 1980s, dominant discourses in West Africa centred on industrialisation and manufacturing economy.

Through the recent few decades, there has been a strongly-asserted argument on African countries which are struggling economically and politically. The argument is that their way out of the vicious circle of poverty, debt and dependency is in the ‘market’ way.

Zimbabwe’s last elections have given credence to the suspicion that President Robert Mugabe may never willingly give up power. But an American journalist has suggested that Mugabe can still be enticed to step up away from power in 2018 by offering him an honorable exit now.

“Recently, three students from Kenya were mistaken for African Americans and were brutally beaten by the New York police. Shortly after that two diplomats from Uganda were also beaten by the New York City police, who mistook them for African Americans.

Zimbabwe just had general presidential and parliamentary elections in which the ruling party simply swept the votes contrary to the expectations of many.

General Olusegun Obasanjo who misruled Nigeria for eleven years recently went to Ibadan to curse corrupt and inept rulers of Nigeria, including himself, when he stated: ‘Maybe we are all going to hell’.

One of the unadvertised reasons for the removal of Mrs. Farida Waziri as head of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was her reported ‘stubbornness’ in pressing for a special court, a tribunal of sort, to try corruption cases. Had Mrs.

Strike is an organised work stoppage by a body of workers to enforce compliance with demands made on an employer or a group of employers.