Governance

In the days before this year's State of the Union address, we heard a lot about how Barack Obama was finally about to unleash the mighty executive powers of his office to accomplish some of the many great things he's always wanted to accomplish, those mostly unspecified things which evil and immo

The Constitution requires the president to “…from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union….” Regardless of what the framers of the constitution intended, this event has devolved into empty theatrics, worthless punditry and outright lies.

Glencore’s Umsimbithi mine is involuntarily relocating farm workers from the Wonderfontein area close to Belfast, so that the land can be mined. The villagers have not yet been relocated, but Glencore has already started mining.

During the summer of 1964 over 1,000 student volunteers along with rank-and-file workers and professionals from the northern and western cities of the United States traveled to Mississippi and Southwest Tennessee to assist African Americans in their decades-long struggle to acquire the right to v

The meaning of the term “African Renaissance” now running parallel with Pan Africanism in the corridors of the African Union must be clarified.

Women in war-scarred regions who fall victim to either sexual or gender-based violence, face double tragedy: On the one hand there is thin police presence especially in rural communities with some officers named as perpetrators.

The flying geese model is a well-known phenomenon in East Asia. In Japan, particularly, it’s widely accepted to be the only theory that can explain the historical correlation between industrialization of Japan and the other economies in East Asia.

Recent statements by some Zambian politicians that the country’s rate of population growth of around 3% is too high are misplaced.

Visiting your alma mater brings some nostalgic feelings of the good and not-so-good times. However, when your former institution of learning seems to be moving from bad to worse, the nostalgia turns to repugnance.

When the idea of this piece first occurred to me about four years ago, I thought that being beggars was a recent development brought about by the devastating consequences of military and one- party misrule combined with ill-timed, not well thought-out, and poorly implemented Structural Adjustment