Governance

Burundi’s current deadlock, on its face, hinges on the president’s staunch determination to run for another presidential term, after ten years in office.

Frantz Fanon's seminal text, Wretched of the Earth, has inspired entire nations of people over the last century in their struggle against colonial occupation, especially on the

There is an ongoing case underway in the World Bank's Administrative Tribunal involving an African litigant who wanted to introduce a DNA test result to establish that Blacks are human and should be treated as such by the World Bank and its Administrative Tribunal.

As history unfolds in Nigeria, it does appear that “the more things change the more they remain the same”. As a military dictator thirty-two years ago, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) truncated Nigeria’s Second Republic which was reputed for its scandalous corruption.

Although political apartheid was dismantled by the 1994 election of President Nelson Mandela in South Africa, a new form of economic apartheid is now stalking the entire African continent.

[This talk was delivered at the Afrikan Liberation Day symposium, at the Drill Hall, Gauteng, South Africa, 25 May 2015.">

OPENING REMARKS AND DEDICATION

To no one’s surprise, Ethiopia’s ruling party, the Ethiopian People’s Ruling Democratic Front (EPRDF), swept the country’s recent national elections.

The May 24, 2015 Ethiopian election is an archetypical political process where authoritarian developmentalism went to the poll seeking procedural democratic legitimacy for its less inclusive economic growth and severely restricted civil and political rights of citizens.

According to the National Election Board of Ethiopia, the result of last week’s national election is that the EPRDF (Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front) has achieved a complete victory by grabbing all the parliamentary seats.

His Excellency,
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces,
Muhammadu Buhari

Sir,