Comment & analysis

Several African countries are amongst today’s fastest growing economies in the world, boosted in many instances by new discoveries of oil, natural gas and strategic mineral reserves.

Kenya is an usual country in that it is one of the countries where the number of workers joining trade union movements is actually on the decrease, unlike in the 1960s and 1970s where the future of those who were just employed used to start by joining a trade union.

Here we go again! The other time, it was our friend and information minister, Labaran Maku who dropped the bombshell.

Thousands of women and young girls have suffered due to beating, rape and forced sexual slavery. Just the other month (March 2013) a man killed his pregnant wife because she lost his phone sim card.

Why did the bombers target the finish line? Was it racial based, as historically Africans have been winners? Three spectators died and later a campus police officer was executed: none of them were African despite the positioning.

After years of overlooking the real needs of the Somali people, it was significant, longed-for change that Somalia’s statebuilding featured in the strategic agenda of the key actors of the International Community (IC), namely the G8 powers [1] in their ministerial meeting held in London on April

A freely discussed nation is a well-resolved nation. Therefore, an un-discussed nation is an un-resolved nation that has no business with peace. Since January 1914, when Nigeria was created by Britain, several fundamental ethno-religious issues have been acting to tear the country apart.

Edmund Burke, the British statesman and philosopher, said ‘Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.’ We’ve heard many promises on human rights in Africa from President Obama and his administration over the past four years.

Swaziland is going through its worst media freedom crisis in living memory following the conviction of a magazine editor for writing and publishing material that criticised the courts and judiciary.

Kenya is going through exciting times. The discovery of oil last year in Turkana area, the Northern parts of the country, and the successful conduct of a largely peaceful election in March 2013 and transition to the new administration under President Uhuru Kenyatta have set tongues wagging.