Comment & analysis

Nigeria’s 2011 general elections are high up on the list of my ‘most anticipated events’.

At the Nuremberg Trials in 1945, Hermann Goering, Hitler’s right-hand man, told his interrogator:

Jailing and deporting Edwin Nebolisa may not be the good riddance of a nuisance as the Government of President Yaya Jammeh thought.

Simone wearing a white dress and Laurent in his best suit, holding hands like newly-weds who have just made their vows to the mayor.

‘If the world media misconstrued the “uprising” to be representative of popular sentiment inside Swaziland, then its flopping would deal the wider struggle for democracy a serious body blow.’ Sikelela Dlamini, Swaziland United Democratic Front’s projec

One of the most stimulating publications I have recently read was a book called ‘Herstory’, a title that is a rejection of the term ‘History’, which modern feminists view as a patriarchic term.

The private finance sector arm of the World Bank Group announced last month that it would invest $300 million to promote mining in Africa.

About 100,000 Nubians live in Kenya. Brought by British colonialists to the area as soldiers from different parts of Sudan, the Nubian community in Kenya now has a shared ethnic identity. While the group retains no ties to Sudan, Kenya has historically refused to recognise this minority.

‘This is an African problem and should be left to Africans to solve’ – Bingu Wa Mutharica. immediate past chairperson of the African Union.

If you want to scare the living daylights out of racist people, there’s a simple way to do it without harming anyone.