Governance

INTRODUCTION

The South African ‘Sunday Times’ of 9 February 2014 carried an article entitled, ‘Five facts about Nelson Mandela that you did not know’. Two of those facts caught my personal as well as lawyer’s attention.

The official announcement on 22 February that Abdelaziz Bouteflika will now run for a fourth term as Algerian president in the 17 April election has sent one more shockwave through the society.

The twentieth century gives us a bleak past regarding war. The killing fields of Cambodia, the genocide in Rwanda and Srebrenica massacres, the last two under the supervision of the Security Council and peacekeeping forces of the UN peace.

I am fully aware of the significance of Black History Month (BHM) and why in 1926 Carter G Woodson was compelled to initially promote a week in February that would memorialize the achievements of Black people.

MUGURU NA NYORI, KENYA: They all refuse to forget the scars - the abuses. And the longer they grieve, the wider the rift of distrust widens.

According to The Canadian Oxford Dictionary (Barber 1998: 384), development is defined as ‘a significant change in a course of action, events, [and"> circumstances’ on one hand and ‘Industrialisation or economic advancement of a country or an area.’ With that definition as a starting place I w

What some Nigerians prefer to call Sanusigate signposts how naïve, power drunken and desperate that Nigeria’s presidency has become.

January 2014 marks the 50th commemoration of the assassination of Patrice Emery Lumumba. Lumumba was one of the greatest forces behind the wrestling of independence from the unwilling hands of Belgian colonizers of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In less than two months’ time, the world will be marking the 20th anniversary of the worst genocide seen in Africa since the end of colonialism -- the Rwanda pogrom that began on 6 April 1994.