Governance

Between 7 and 9 May 2013, Obafemi Awolowo University Campus came alive as the students, activists and scholars from every walk of life stormed OAU to honor Dr.

The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) is not an abstract lifeless thing. PAC is its members, cadres and leaders working and winning together.

Diversity and inclusion are important to almost all non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Beyond this recognition, to what extent do NGOs adequately reflect these values?

There is a saying in West Africa which describes the current power of Alassane Ouattara over the people of the Ivory Coast – ‘Quand un singe monte très haut dans un arbre on finit par voir son cul.’ (When a monkey climbs high up a tree he ends up showing the world his ass.)

Nigeria has persisted through fourteen continuous years of a tumultuous democratic experiment, and to date that is what it continues to do: persist.

H.E. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma
Chairperson of the African Union
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Dear Chairperson Zuma

Political violence across African states continues to untangle the social fabric and shake the foundations of nation building. The systematic political violence often leaves a wake gross of human rights abuses. The violence is often fueled by political elites who try to cling on to power.

The land question has been a recurring issue over decades and can be traced back to Kenya’s colonial era at the former coast province.

Kenya has had roughly three phases of the reform movement- the anti-colonial movement, the second liberation, which called for multiparty politics?, and we are now in the third stage, the entrenchment of the reforms inaugurated in the second phase, with the signature achievement being the passage

Thanks are due to the brutally-frank Zambian vice president Guy Scott who last week pronounced, ‘I dislike South Africa for the same reason that Latin Americans dislike the United States’, and to our own president Jacob Zuma for forcing a long-overdue debate, just as the World Economic Forum Afri