Comment & analysis

In the oncoming week, Obafemi Awolowo University will celebrate the grand finale of its 50th anniversary.

Neo-imperialism is quickly gaining grounds in Africa and all the signs are written on the wall.

US President Barack Obama has been carrying the AFRICOM ball down the field after the directive was launched under George W. Bush in 2007.

As a Basic Eight or Junior Secondary School 11 student, my last child, a ten-year-old girl studies fourteen subjects at school. This is about the same number of subjects she studied in primary school. Only last week, she told me that a fifteenth subject, music, has been added to the list.

In an insulting, biased, and ignorant blog,">http://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/africa-s-learning-crisis">blog, Shanta Devarajan, World Bank Chief Eco

Last month a prominent journalist, Daudi Mwangosi, was killed during a public assembly in Tanzania, whilst interacting with police. The week before Mwangosi’s death, a newspaper vendor, Ally Zona, died in a protest that the police were trying to shut down.

The Joint Task Force security outfit in Maiduguri has become what respected Nigerian author, Professor Chinua Achebe, likened to lizards (Biko, a nefer say soja na lizard, o!) that visit your home the moment you bring in an ant-infested tree.

If you are 20 years today, 50 years from now you will be 70; if 30, you’ll be 80; if 50, you’ll be 100 and if 70, you’ll be 120 years old and in the unlikely event, those that are 80 years today will be 130 years old by the time Uganda celebrates her centenary of independence.

Historically, parts of the kingdom of Rwanda were carved out during the 1884 Berlin conference and merged with DR Congo. Ethnic Rwandans forced into DR Congo, like their contemporaries elsewhere across Africa, have completely adopted that country as home.

In the olden days, the colonialists used crude methods of literally stealing resources and taking over leadership positions whilst making Africans subordinates and slaves.