Comment & analysis

By nominating Professor Githu Muigai to the office of the attorney general (AG), President Mwai Kibaki has accomplished something of a rarity for a meek but sleek politician: he has flipped the finger at Kenyans and flipped the finger at Kikuyu lawyers and all Kenyan women lawyers.

Sometimes I wonder who advises government on some of the miserable standpoints that are being taken in various ministries in reaction to pertinent issues affecting the people of Uganda.

Dear Mayor de Lille

I wish, at the outset, to make it clear that we, as Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape, and the many organisations in solidarity with us across Cape Town, appreciate some aspects of your speech yesterday.

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH

When the going gets tough, the tough go looking for distractions and diversions.

South Africa enters an interesting week.

The tragedy of hunger again becomes current news from the food emergency in the Horn of Africa, but famines are a silent daily reality.

“The walls of Mbabane were vibrating with the shouts of Viva Pudemo [banned political party">, viva Swayoco [youth wing of Pudemo">,” says Secretary General of Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions Mduduzi Gina.

Call me crass, but protests in the global South just ain't protests without some identifying moniker. In South Africa, my homeland, you'd be hard-pressed to find a demonstration without appropriate protest gear.

For many black Africans, Norway used to stimulate images of peaceful existence, humane care of citizens and generosity. Indeed, many an African will have often heard of Norway in association with the Nobel Peace Prize.

People are still laying bottles of alcohol outside her house and she’s been a trending topic on twitter and Facebook.