Comment & analysis

The American Commander-in-Chief tried to pass off a personal responsibility bill of goods to his most loyal demographic group, “Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another

When the Democratic Alliance recently launched its ‘Know Your DA’ campaign, I was reminded of a very apt observation made by a young Steve Biko, over 40 years ago, when he warned that ‘The biggest mistake the black world ever made was to assume that whoever opposed apartheid was an ally’.

Traveling on the subway/metro, musical sounds, both amateurish and professional, are ordinarily in hallways of the underground station. The interstice of sound occupying this space and time, though hard to avoid, can be ignored.

While in college, I attempted to act out the American part; I attempted the popular social practices that constituted an all-American look.

Jeffrey R.

For a leader best known for taking controversial decisions, Nigerians are right in commending their president, Goodluck Jonathan, for rising to the occasion to declare states of emergency in parts of the country.

On 14 May 2013, ‘Occupy Parliament: an uprising against collective greed of Kenyan members of parliament’ took place.

In their current shuttle diplomacy in the Great Lakes region, Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank, and Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, have spoken on the need for Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to commit to peace in exchange for $ 1 billion in aid.

A few days ago, IHS Jane, a well-established company for global security analysis, released an analysis under the title

A few years ago, a former US ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. John Campbell, wrote a tiny, brilliant book titled ‘Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink’. I wrote a piece acknowledging the searching intelligence and inspired insight in that book and got so many knocks on the head for doing so.