Comment & analysis

Every year hundreds of young men and boys die at initiation schools from botched circumcisions, assault or dehydration, yet government, traditional and “cultural” authorities have done very little to intervene.

The song of women on the march in 1956 honours the love that ensures the survival of millions of families and communities. One of the meanings of Imbokodo is ‘grinding stone’, referring to the work countless women do to produce food for our world.

This piece is not about former President Goodluck Jonathan, but it is important to focus on him to help us understand our current predicament.

The Pan Africa movement is a powerful force in Africa and in the Diaspora seeking to engage in international real politics in order to neutralize the forces of neo-liberal globalization, which favor capital and markets.

On the night of the 23 August 2012, the infamous Mile 2 Prison was shaken by the surprise execution of nine prisoners, seven Gambians and two Senegalese.

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power is on a mission to save Africans from African savagery. She wants you to call 1-800-GENOCIDE so she can pressure the president to send in the Marines or US Special Forces.

As has become tradition over the past several years, the world descended on Offa, Kwara state, in North Central Nigeria on August 12 to celebrate one of Africa’s greatest sons.

The 54-year-young black president of the United States of America, Barak Hussein Obama, has recently amplified his foreign policy on Africa by the recent 5-day tour of Eastern Africa, to Kenya and Ethiopia. He became the first sitting U.S. president to address the African Union.

The Punch Newspaper posted a report on its website on 23 July regarding a protest of admission seekers and their parents at the premises of the University of Lagos.

Maxwell Dlamini finally walked out of prison in July, released on bail after having spent fourteen months in squalid conditions in the prisons of Swaziland’s absolute monarch King Mswati III. His crime was to have sung a pro-democracy song.