Comment & analysis

Kenyans were pleasantly surprised that their most celebrated kinsman the President of the United States Barack Obama finally broke the silence on his take on the coming elections in Kenya.

I find the 2013 Uganda quite humorous, quite enthralling but also bemusing as much as it is amusing. Since 2008, the government has treated me as a ball to be kicked by any policeman; it has taken me to be a drum; it has turned me into a punching bag.

The tragedy of the Nigerian political class is multi-dimensional. They are greedy, dubious and desperate. They are gullible almost to the point of nincompoopery.

On BBC Question Time last week an angry audience member asked the panel why Britain should be sending military help to the French in Mali. “I don’t remember the French coming to our aid when we went to the Falklands” he fumed to loud applause.

BELGIAN MP LAURENT LOUIS: Thank you, Mr President. Dear Ministers, dear colleagues

In a few short years (22), Cameroonians are supposed to be enjoying the trappings and quality of life that go with an emerging economy. As defined by economists, an emerging nation is one which has achieved industrial capacity and is on the path to becoming an industrialized nation.

In his forthcoming book, tentatively titled ‘Understanding African Underdevelopment: Rethinking the Future’ (Oxford: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2013), Anthony Obeng argues that despite Africa’s history of exploitation and dehumanization during the centuries of trade by chartere

Before the recent French intervention in Mali began, 412,000 people had already left their homes in the country’s north, fleeing torture, summary executions, recruitment of child soldiers and sexual violence against women at the hands of fundamentalist militants.

Back in 1964, under prodding from a BBC interviewer, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

January 17, 2013 is a memorable day for the entire people of Somalia. It will be marked as a day for jubilation.