Governance

PETER GODWIN: Professor Soyinka, you’re not an ivory-tower kind of writer. You are not a stranger to danger, and in fact you’ve been imprisoned on at least two occasions, once in solitary confinement. Can you tell me what that was like?

The latest news from the labour front is that 12,000 workers were fired on 12 October by Angloplats for a wildcat strike (it is likely most will be rehired in coming days if an above-inflation wage settlement is reached), and thousands of others are threatened by the mining houses.

They are appalled by the fact that the woman has been charged with public indecency when she filed the complaint - a charge which could yield up to six months in prison.

Either Kenyans are full of contradictions or they are being underestimated by the two tribal leaders, Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and his counterpart Eldoret North MP William Ruto who are facing charges of crimes against humanity arising from the post-election violence of 2007-8 by the I

Last month a prominent journalist, Daudi Mwangosi, was killed during a public assembly in Tanzania, whilst interacting with police. The week before Mwangosi’s death, a newspaper vendor, Ally Zona, died in a protest that the police were trying to shut down.

Mama Christine Qunta is an accomplished writer, attorney and entrepreneur. Her work, spanning various fields, is held together by the quest for a more just and free society.

Somalia adopted a UN-drafted Provisional Constitution, formed a new national parliament representing the entire population of the country and elected a national leadership for ending 12 years of a chaotic transition period and established a permanent, representative and accountable government eli

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