Governance

I’d like to challenge the AU to tell me which tribunal or judiciary in Africa will ever convict a sitting head of state. This attempt to renege on a commitment to the ICC is nothing more than a sinister plot by Africa’s dictators to save themselves from any kind of accountability.

How many of us know that 2013 is the year of Africa?

"The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is, survives him; it can never be buried." - J.R Miller

It was on June 14, 1980, when for the first time, the BBC 7.15 Caribbean report was blocked from the Guyana Broadcasting Corporation because the powers that be did not want the public to learn of the assassination of Dr.

In Sierra Leone, solar lights are being installed around the country and extended to some provincial towns as well. But what is happening to the National Power Authority (NPA) that provides electric power supply to Freetown and its periphery?

In arriving at judgements, it is important that courts do not cultivate the unsavoury impression that they are hell-bent on taking us back to the Court of Chancery in Dickens’ Bleak House.

June is here! The 12th day of the month is Democracy Day in the south west, a work-free day when pro-democracy activists, academics and political leaders join millions of Nigerians in the region to mark a significant day in the nation’s calendar. It has been the ritual since 1993.

Tax havens such as Ireland and the Cayman Islands have become a key driver of vast inequality around the world, siphoning somewhere between $21 and 32 trillion from the global economy.

The path from dictatorship to democracy is riddled with roadblocks. Take Tunisia, the genesis of the 2011 Arab spring uprisings. A mass rebellion that began with a fruit vendor’s self-immolation led to the departure of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the North African country’s dictator since 1987.