Comment & analysis

The war appears almost won and almost lost. For months on end, advocates and opponents of amnesty for members of the Boko Haram sect have made strong submissions to press their case.

‘Brazil has the largest population of blacks outside of Africa, in fact second only to Nigeria.’ I have always know this at the back of my mind as one of those ‘do-you-know-facts’.

Those working in the human rights sector often take it for granted that human rights are universal, and that everyone surely appreciates that they apply to ALL human beings.

It will be recalled that about two weeks ago, workers, arising from their congresses, resolved to embark on a four-day warning strike to drive home their demand for implementation of the nationally legislated N18, 000 minimum wage, which the Aregbesola government has stubbornly refused to impleme

In his speech at the memorial service for the soldiers who were killed in the Central African Republic Jacob Zuma presented us, and not for the first time, with the idea that we should receive another accumulation of bodies – of black bodies – as a tragedy, as a cruel consequence of the random mo

France, as a country exhausted by German colonial rule during the 1938-1945 war, still dreamed of a world in which there was ‘permanent exclusion of self-government of the African territories’ she exploited as occupied lands. The 1944 Declaration made from Brazzaville in Congo said so.

The 2013 election was pivotal in many respects. It was the first election under the new constitution promulgated in August 2010.

The political situation in Mozambique is agitated. At sunrise on April 4, a group of about 200 members of Renamo (National Resistance of Moçambique, the main opposition party) organized a meeting in Muxunguè (Chibabava, Province of Sofala).

‘As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems.

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