Comment & analysis

In Sierra Leone, solar lights are being installed around the country and extended to some provincial towns as well. But what is happening to the National Power Authority (NPA) that provides electric power supply to Freetown and its periphery?

In arriving at judgements, it is important that courts do not cultivate the unsavoury impression that they are hell-bent on taking us back to the Court of Chancery in Dickens’ Bleak House.

June is here! The 12th day of the month is Democracy Day in the south west, a work-free day when pro-democracy activists, academics and political leaders join millions of Nigerians in the region to mark a significant day in the nation’s calendar. It has been the ritual since 1993.

If terrorism can be defined as the wanton killing of innocent people, then there are many terrorists around the globe. Most of those terrorists are not members of al-Qaeda, al-Shabab or other organizations whose names the corporate media repeat ad nauseam.

I arrived in London on a drab and rainy Friday afternoon in the spring of 1985. Margaret Thatcher was in her second term as prime minister and Samantha Fox was Britain’s favourite page-three girl for The Sun.

A female police officer was almost undressed as she battled a female journalist during a demonstration over the closure of the Daily Monitor and other media houses in Kampala, Uganda, recently.

A presentation by S'bu Zikode at the Regional Consultation on Security of Tenure called by UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, in Johannesburg

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Threat of two death sentences is ominously hanging over Nigeria ahead of the country’s centennial celebration. The first will be effected, according to its bearer, Mujahid Dokubo Asari, in the unlikely event that security agents swoop on him.

Fifty years later, June 1 still represents a critical reference point in Kenya’s historical march towards becoming a fully independent, democratic developmental state.