Comment & analysis

There is need to appreciate the history of the institution of marriage in our law. It all dates back during the classical Roman law period when marriage was a purely a private institution which did not involve the state.

Dear UTA,

In a posting on 28 June 2013, I highlighted the tragedy of youth unemployment in Europe: ‘Europe's unemployed youths face years trapped in a spiral of poverty and exclusion’

As Africa celebrates this year the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and almost a little more than a decade since the formation of the African Union (AU), Africans will ask themselves to what level the AU and its institutions have succeeded to put the co

Kenyans were rightly outraged when their already well paid legislators asked for a pay rise. Some were louder and more creative in their outrage than others.

Twenty years ago, exactly on June 12, 1993, Nigerians trooped out to vote in an election that has come to be adjudged as the best in the country.

I have argued variously that without the very determined British military, diplomatic and political support to the Nigerian state right from the outset, the Igbo genocide, this foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa, would probably not have occurred. [1]

Dear President Kiir,

The United States of America, the United Nations and the UN Security Council spearheaded, supported, mediated and finally validated the legitimacy and integrity of the constitutional process which marked the end of the transition period and the election of an internationally recognized inclusi