Comment & analysis

Throughout African history, the youth have always played a positive role in the struggle for self-emancipation and change. It is difficult to see a situation of change in which the youth were either left out completely or were mere bystanders.

‘In the world we live in, the bad wolf of climate change has already ransacked the straw house and the house made of sticks, and the inhabitants of both are now knocking on the door of the brick house where the people of the developed world live’. Archbishop Desmond Tutu

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the global Sixteen Days of Activism on gender violence campaign, and 10 years of the annual commemoration in Southern Africa. Each year during Sixteen Days, we stop and ponder achievements and accomplishments, and assess how much further still to go.

It's often said that people deserve their leaders. Can anyone in their right frame of mind honestly deny the fact that Cameroonians deserve Mr Paul Barthélemy Biya Bi Mvondo? There is a generation of Cameroonians who have not known another president but Paul Biya.

My friend Angela has been an ardent supporter of Uganda’s opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party and has together with her husband vigorously campaigned for Dr Kizza Besigye and Jack Sabiiti in all the three past elections.

On 28 October, the Mail & Guardian published a critical reflection I wrote on our first attempt at building an Occupy Cape Town movement.

Over two decades China has made a huge success in implementing its long-term strategic foreign policy while Russia is still struggling to engage Africa.

INTRODUCTION

‘Kairos’ is an ancient Greek word meaning the right or opportune moment, while the idiom ‘to cross the Rubicon’ means to pass a pointof no return. It refers to Julius Caesar’s army crossing of River Rubicon in 49 BC, which was considered an act of insurrection.

In his book ‘Discipline and Punish’, French philosopher Michel Foucault describes how the carceral system - the architecture of the prison - is similarly replicated in society and, we might argue, contrived recreation and professional areas, whether ‘spontaneous’ such as tourist resorts, or even

The World Bank has launched a new partnership with global corporations including Nestlé, Coca-Cola and Veolia.