Comment & analysis

On the 12th of June 1993, Nigerians went to the polls in great numbers, indeed in the greatest numbers ever, and voted massively for Moshood Abiola (27 August 1937- 7 July 1998) to become their president.

August 9 represented the 57th anniversary of the Women’s March on Pretoria in 1956. The event attracted 20,000 women to protest the pass laws which were a hallmark of the racist apartheid system.

“Thousands of inmates, mostly black, languish in prison under the old, discredited ratio. Like slavery and Jim Crow laws, the intentional maintenance of discriminatory sentences is a denial of equal protection.” – Sixth District Court of Appeals

This week a military judge pronounced US Army Private Bradley Manning guilty of espionage and other offenses.

According to Nigeria’s Ministry of Information, its web portal was attacked [1] on July 4 by a ‘group’ of gay rights activists, who were ostensibly hoping to successfully fight Nigeria’s anti homosexual rights laws by ambushing its governmental portals.

Salima was only 18 when she met Mohammed and a short courting period later, the two were married. A year later they were blessed with their first child, a daughter. Mohammed's family came from all over to congratulate the young couple on the birth of their first child.

Kenya’s intervention in Somalia October 2011, the first since the country’s independence, came as a surprise to many observers in the Horn of Africa.

Recently, I published an article commemorating the 47th anniversary of the launch of the largely British-orchestrated and managed Nigerian-state military invasion of Igboland, Biafra (

I am not a slave. Say it again. I am not a slave. These are words that have been getting Afrikans into trouble for a long time, and our present and our imaginaries are often shaped by an acquaintance with the trouble that will follow any expressive recognition of our ownership of self.

For what can be appropriately termed as an attempt to trigger political anarchy, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is seeking wider powers including powers to disqualify candidates, which will make the current sectarian tensions engulfing the polity child’s play.