Governance

After more than ten years working in the Horn of Africa region with women, from Darfur in Sudan to the coast of Somalia, the braveness of Muhildeen Shikh Mohamed an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) Somali man living in Mogadishu took me by surprise.

Article 33(1) of the Constitution of Kenya provides, among others, for freedom of expression through ‘…artistic creativity…’

Sometime ago the cultural department of Germany, Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes), unveiled its cultural exchange program for African countries with a budget of 2.091 million Euros. The budget will run from 2012 to 2015.

The American Commander-in-Chief tried to pass off a personal responsibility bill of goods to his most loyal demographic group, “Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another

When the Democratic Alliance recently launched its ‘Know Your DA’ campaign, I was reminded of a very apt observation made by a young Steve Biko, over 40 years ago, when he warned that ‘The biggest mistake the black world ever made was to assume that whoever opposed apartheid was an ally’.

Traveling on the subway/metro, musical sounds, both amateurish and professional, are ordinarily in hallways of the underground station. The interstice of sound occupying this space and time, though hard to avoid, can be ignored.

Jeffrey R.

‘What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.’ Shakespeare (1), Romeo and Juliet

Africa has uninterruptedly been a net-exporter of capital to the Western World since 1981.

For a leader best known for taking controversial decisions, Nigerians are right in commending their president, Goodluck Jonathan, for rising to the occasion to declare states of emergency in parts of the country.