Comment & analysis

Future politicians of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who have not yet socially and economically contributed to destroying the DRC should conquer fear.

‘We were only tolerated simply because our cheap labour is needed.’ - Steve Biko

I was baffled by press reports that President Museveni said he would have retired to his farm but when he scrutinizes people who want to take over from him, they lack focus to drive the ‘vehicle’.

As novas estratégias se mostram ainda mais perversas do que no passado: não se explora mais o trabalho escravo das minorias traficadas para as Américas e alhures. Agora a “bola da vez” é a promoção, o acirramento das antigas rivalidades tribais.

Here below, are ten ways, and I invite you to think of your own, through which Westerners can contribute to what Nelson Mandela in the struggle against apartheid referred to as a ‘profound and irreversible change’.

It seems to me that the African identity has been under siege from a barrage of demeaning attacks by some isolated but significant players abroad. These attacks have generated an angry discourse across many (social) media platforms especially since they have been excused as ‘honest mistakes’.

It was invoked in Libya, but should it be applied to Syria as well?

2011 was a watershed year for the protest movement, with huge protests across the Arab world resulting in the toppling of long-standing regimes. ‘The Protestor’ was even named Time Person of the Year for 2011.

I sit back and fail to understand why there are people still staying in shacks. I fail to understand why there is so much separation in this country, why there are areas for the rich and the poor.

James Kiawoin, a Liberian first-year student at Colorado College, recently wrote: