Governance

Quite tragically, Egypt now seems to be following the same bloody path as Algeria in the 1990s.

The above headline of mine is surprisingly very civilized compared to ‘Umurabyo’ newspaper’s independent journalist Saidati Mukakibibi’s. She is now languishing in jail in Rwanda for having quite rightly compared President Paul Kagame with the Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler.

Recently I posed several questions to my countrymen living in the diaspora as to whether or not they are considering relocating back to Kenya. The reasons for their extended stays are varied but the typical response is at best some version of an unsure and forlorn affirmative.

Swaziland's elections have started, elections that many people in the small absolute monarchy jokingly refer to as “selections”, not elections.

Recently I was invited to a youth dialogue by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory to discuss ‘social cohesion’. I left that dialogue unimpressed.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013 marked the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington. On this day in 1963, 250,000 people came to Washington, from all corners of America, to march for freedom, jobs and the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill.

I'm too young to have memories of the 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom in DC. I was twelve, and preoccupied with whatever 12 year olds are worried about. But by the time Dr.

Just before launching yet another unprovoked war to preserve the empire, Barack Obama stopped by the Lincoln Memorial to star in the commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington.

In his conclusion to his seminal ‘The Wretched of the Earth,’ first published in 1961, Fanon proclaims:

Like every house built on fraud, the attempt by the Nigerian ruling class to privatize Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and the electricity sector is already falling flat.