Comment & analysis

I must have been about 10 in colonial Kenya when I saw men, women and children in a convoy of lorries being forcibly removed from their land and relocated to some dry plains they called the land of black rocks.

For Liberia, the 2017 presidential, senatorial, and local government elections stand to ignite a collective anxiety for both the nation and its international partners.

In its issue, 2nd -8th March 2013, The Economist magazine drew a rosy picture of Africa in a 14-page special report of what it described as “the world’s fastest growing continent,” with a cover page title “Aspiring Africa”1, featuring the picture of a giraffe with an exaggeratedly long neck scan

The introduction of biometric voter identification and results transmission systems by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) was a stipulation of the election act that was meant to ease the problems associated with the manual voter registration and tallying after the Krigler

Many of us who pontificate about the dissonance between dissent and patriotism remain oblivious to the fact that these are actually very loaded terms.

On January 21, 2013 the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg found Mr Henry Okah guilty of 13 charges related to terrorism. We’ll get to that and other matters; but for now, it is pertinent to point out a few anomalies.

The general consensus is that political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi’s ‘tyranny of tribal numbers’ theory was the determining factor for Uhuru Kenyatta’s contested recent win in the March 4 elections.

There can be no doubt that since 1994 (non-corporate) progressive civil society organisations (CSOs) in South Africa, despite serious organisational and resource challenges alongside an often hostile government and corporate sector, have achieved a great deal.

Designed in 2000 by developed countries on behalf of developing countries, the MDGs were collectively promoted as a near-final solution to the development quagmire that drowns a section of the globe.

As a prodigal child, you are always haunted by your unceremonious departure from home. You never stop thinking about making your return trip, and wonder how to return strategically without getting jettisoned. Finally, you gain the courage to actually return—because home is home.