Governance

In 2008, Alice Kasirori* was raped by four men during the violent run-off in the presidential elections. Rape was the price she paid for her husband's political activism and resulted in the pregnancy of her third child.

Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa), the southern African country's electricity utility company, is owed over $700 million, with domestic users accounting for nearly $261 million of the debt.

According to Nigeria’s Ministry of Information, its web portal was attacked [1] on July 4 by a ‘group’ of gay rights activists, who were ostensibly hoping to successfully fight Nigeria’s anti homosexual rights laws by ambushing its governmental portals.

Salima was only 18 when she met Mohammed and a short courting period later, the two were married. A year later they were blessed with their first child, a daughter. Mohammed's family came from all over to congratulate the young couple on the birth of their first child.

‘Let us banish from our minds the thought that this is an unfortunate victim of injustice. The very concept of injustice rests upon the premise of equal claims.’ - Richard Wright

Although the United States has refused to condemn the military seizure of power in Egypt and is sending another four F-16 fighter jets to Cairo, the White House, Pentagon and State Department are obviously concerned about developments in this North African country and throughout the region.

The short answer is ‘No.’ A longer answer follows. What happened in Egypt between 30 June and 3 July was not a coup against an elected government. It was another attempt by the generals to co-opt Egypt’s 25 January Revolution.

‘Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance.

Kenya’s intervention in Somalia October 2011, the first since the country’s independence, came as a surprise to many observers in the Horn of Africa.

I am not a slave. Say it again. I am not a slave. These are words that have been getting Afrikans into trouble for a long time, and our present and our imaginaries are often shaped by an acquaintance with the trouble that will follow any expressive recognition of our ownership of self.