Comment & analysis

Apparently, a reality show-cum-documentary called ‘Famous, Rich and in the Slums’, which has been shot in Kibera, has been airing on British TV in the last few days. The film is being promoted as a fund-raiser for the residents of Nairobi’s most notorious slum.

The present chairperson of the African Union is Teodoro Obiang Nguema. He is (by his own words) a dictator. This single fact is enough to widely discredit the AU.

I was born 1990-27-09 in cape town, in a very big hospital called grooterschuur but i grow up in eastern cape in a small rural area called ediphala in [whittle sea] at that time life was very easy because i was raised up by both parents and both grand parents in both famalies, but things got cha

So we’ve just witnessed two big farewell parties in Tunis and Cairo within less than a month’s time. The third party is still going on and it’s not too far to see the fireworks to be staged in the streets of Tripoli celebrating the fall of the giant of the Arab world and African dictators.

28 February 2011 began just like any other ordinary day. That is, until I received a distress call from my colleague Carolyn, a fellow community organiser, with the sad information about the preventable death of expectant mother due to birth-related complications.

Dear Free People of Egypt,

It’s a lovely day to be talking to you all in a Mubarak and NDP free Egypt. It’s been quite the undertaking, and many people were terrified, injured or killed, but we somehow managed to do it. Congratulations on that to all of us. Pats on the back, everybody!

We note with great concern the tendency of some political parties and politicians to flagrantly disregard the provisions of the Electoral Act in the run-off to the April 2011 elections in the country.

When at just 27 years old Gaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.

Many an African dictator is trembling in his (invariably dictators appear to be mostly men) boots, following popular uprisings that swept long-time rulers out of power in Tunisia and Egypt.

MORAL HAZARD AND MORAL BANKRUPTCY