Governance

“No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.”The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Art.

In the context of Somali political culture and discourse, it should be clear by now that the meaning of the principle of ‘federalism in Somalia’ is completely different from the one of political power decentralization for governance explored in the legal and political literature.

In April 2013 the Kenya government granted a $484 million contract to a Chinese firm to put up the first three berths for the new Lamu Port in the first phase implementation process of the project.

Twenty years ago, on 14 February 1994, the Armed Islamic Group sent a Valentine’s Day message of hate to Algerian performing artists and the youth who loved them by gunning down Aziz Smati, beloved producer of the local equivalent of MTV.

The conference of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), held in December 2013, was indisputably a momentous occasion in the struggle in South Africa.

Now the Davos elites have ‘raised’ the issue of rich-poor divide. The World Economic Forum (WEF, 22-25 January 2014) said that the growing rich-poor income gap is the biggest risk the world is facing for the next decade. Pope Francis told Davos to fight inequality, hunger. But Mr.

In March of 1964, Malcolm X announced his official departure from the Nation of Islam where he had spent 12 years working on behalf of the organization led by Elijah Muhammad.

While newspapers elsewhere in the world shrivel, thanks to shrinking ad revenue and online competition, they are still dominant in much of East Africa, where a growing middle class and prohibitively expensive online browsing have allowed the printed word to survive and even thrive.

“Resisting is pointless,” we hear endlessly repeated. “So many years of protest but the crisis continues, why bother?” insist others, inoculating us with apathy and resignation. “Protests could lead to something that’s even worse,” whispers the machinery of fear.

Perhaps we need to examine South Africa’s national dialogue. Yes, including and beyond Mr. Thamsanqa Jantjie, the vagary of the Nelson Mandela memorial.