Comment & analysis

Mr. Koigi Wa Wamwere spent about 17 years in detention in both President Kenyatta's and in President Moi's regimes. He is placed second to President Nelson Mandela of South Africa who spent a total of 27 years in detention.

I was reading through a recent interview granted by a factional Chairman of the Nigerian Governor's Forum, Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau state to the National Mirror, and what I read was disheartening. Perhaps he is ignorant of what his comment means.

Rush hour on commuter rail epitomizes survival of the fittest. Oblivious to color, age, pregnancy, special-needs, etc, it only knows the urgency of commuting, getting to its destination.

On a side street in Nairobi’s bustling neighbourhood of Shauri Moyo, Faisal Ngila shouts to street vendors, motorbike taxi drivers and pedestrians.

‘Pambazuka News’ is something of a misnomer. The Newsletter and Homepage are a pristine source for long-form articles, shedding light into complex issues, digging up underreported developments and providing a critical perspective.

As my readers know, I enjoy watchin’ American diplomats chillin’ out and kickin’ it with African dictators. I like watchin’ ‘em kumbaya-ing, back-pattin’ and fist bumpin’. I have trained myself to decipher their cryptic diplomatese spoken with forked tongue.

Normally Tanzanian lawmakers would ‘prove’ their radicalism by blasting rival parties, state authorities, public corporations or ministers for shoddy work done or millions that go missing. They would hardly ever take a swipe at a multinational corporation, much less an American one.

In the long view, neither effort matters: Not ambassador Macharia Kamau’s insipid and inept letter to the UN Security Council nor ambassador Monica Juma’s dogged, more professional and ultimately successful effort to get the ICC issue on the AU Summit agenda in the first place and eventually to s

The North-South Institute(NSI) has been championing international development for nearly forty years. And in those forty years there were times when the Canadian government looked kindly upon international development assistance and times when it did not.