Governance

After my last article, I swore not to comment anymore on Dr. James Cuno’s statements in order to avoid any impression that I was unduly concentrating on the opinions of one scholar.

As I was studying the Public Audit Bill, I was surprised to see a clause which gives the Attorney General (AG) very considerable powers over the Auditor General (AuG) as to the information he must not disclose, including information that “would unfairly prejudice the commercial interests of any b

In spite of steady economic growth in Nigeria the benefits do not get to the grassroots, while unemployment is increasing vis-à-vis high levels of food importation (Manuaka, 2011:35; Sawyerr, 2012; Akpeji and Ajayi, 2012).

Who are you?” the late Muammar Gaddafi once rhetorically asked in a famous speech of his towards the end of his reign; (rightly) questioning the legitimacy of those seeking to over-throw his government at the time, calling them extremists, foreign agents, rats and drug-addicts.

In This Book Has No Title, Jarod Kintz induces an enigmatic syringe, “In the land of Gibberish, the man who makes sense, the man who speaks clearly, clearly speaks nonsense.” Zambia presently looks like a land where those who make sense, who speak clearly, clearly speak nonsense.

This week at the 59th convening Session for the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations in New York, the international community will acknowledge and celebrate the accomplishments made towards achieving gender equality and advancing women’s rights in the 20 years since the adoptio

While a number of countries already have discriminating laws against homosexuals in place, there have been intensified efforts to tighten laws on homosexuality as in Nigeria and Uganda; enforce discriminating law as in Malawi, Egypt and Cameroon; or spread hatred in public forums as in Ethiopia.

[NOTE: This was a Keynote Address to the Gender Festival organized by the Tanzania Gender Networking Group in September, 2003. Shivji is grateful to Natasha Shivji for reading and commenting on the draft.">

SOUL-SEARCHING

With the proliferation of NGOs in post-independence Africa and subsequent NG-organising, there is a lack of acknowledgement of the interlocking nature of the factors and systems of oppression and how they continuously work together to produce domination, discrimination and marginalisation in this

There is no respite for young people in Kenya. They, who constitute the majority of our population, live lives that while supposedly anchored in a new constitution and the prospering civil liberty doctrines of the 1990s and onwards, have no bread, no employment and no justice.