Education

For the newly independent countries in the early 1960s, especially in Africa, one of the main priorities was to develop the capacities of their own nationals.

When we talk of “bequests” left to the living by the dead, we often think of material things.

For a largely conservative community, Kampala is reeling off in shock at Dr. Stella Nyanzi’s nude protest at Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISRI). Protesting removal from one work facility to another, Stella chose nudity as a method of protest.

Even as one struggles to make room for optimism in the destiny of Nigeria in these unsettling times, without doubt in the hope that those who now hold the levers of power will somehow manage to begin to find solutions to some of our lingering pains, some odd incidents take place and feed one’s su

In Britain there has yet to emerge a movement to decolonize British universities, particularly in the fields of African Studies, the Humanities and Social Sciences along with an increased appointment of African scholars in these specific fields.

There was nothing peculiar about the timid drizzle that ushered in the morning of Monday the 18th. It was after all April, our month of the long rains. But when Dr.

Introducing its pilot program, Partnership Schools for Liberia, the Liberian government has used inspirational language to describe the opportunities of outsourcing some of Liberia’s primary and early childhood educational system to private companies.

Poor Liberia! Few countries in the world have been as ill-served by their government officials as Liberia has been.