Governance

According to the returning officer, Professor James Epoke, the Vice Chancellor of my beloved Alma Mater, University of Calabar, there will be a supplementary election in areas with cancelled votes because the number of cancelled votes were more than the difference between the winning party, APGA,

One of the many problems that stared the corrective military government of the late General Murtala Ramat Muhammad in the face was the national head count which took place two years before the government came to power in July, 1975.

This initiative is particularly remarkable at a time when the AU is in the headlines for its confrontation with the International Criminal Court, an institution that represents a step forward for international justice – albeit currently compromised and partial.

Nobody but Americans celebrates Thanksgiving. (Canadians have a holiday by the same name, but an entirely different history and political import.) It is reserved by history and the intent of "the founders" as the supremely white American holiday, the most ghoulish event on the national calendar.

The small student,* a four-year old, woke up happy that day. She was proud to have been chosen by the teacher to be the little bride in the June festival in the school.

It was always my belief that if Africa were to change its bad reputation as the citadel of corrupt politicians and a haven for mismanaged foreign aid, it would have to be the continent’s women that lead the way.

The PanAfrican Climate Justice Alliance called for the walk-out, and I hope if conditions don't improve between now and the next summit, in Peru a year from now, they take even stronger leadership to denounce the very presence of climate saboteurs from Washington and the other major polluting pow

In the past decade, the media has shown evidence of the expansion of the middle class in Brazil. Within this, attention has been given to black people in high positions, usually with excellent education, who hold office in places traditionally reserved for the cultural and economic elite.

From the cradle man to the funerary home of his grandfather, the African continent is the object of old-school derision.

Mozambique has just undergone its fourth municipal elections.