Governance

From the outside Namibia looks just like South Africa with vast and growing income inequalities, high unemployment and a national politics dominated by their liberation struggle as well as a colonial and pre-independence history, as if not more brutal than South Africa’s.

Mauritania’s history is made up of the reshuffling, reassembling and mixing of disparate societies that were initially very separate from one another. Mauritania cannot be governed by someone who is ignorant of this history or apathetic towards it.

Official racism may been long abolished in South Africa and the US since anti-race activists such as Assata Shakur in the 1970s US, and anti-apartheid activists in South Africa launched their resistance, yet it’s terrible legacy persists for long thereafter.

With the refusal of a grand jury in St.

Darren Wilson resigned as a police officer. Why do people think this is some kind of victory? Did you really expect him to go back to work as a Ferguson police officer? Seriously? And why would he bother when he can now make six figures for an interview? This is America folks.

Wait. Patience. Stay Calm. "This is a country that allows everybody to express their views,” said the first Black president; “allows them to peacefully assemble, to protest actions that they think are unjust." Don’t disrupt, express. Justice will be served. We respect the rule of law.

“Ferguson signifies the end of the age of Obama. It is a very sad end.” – Cornel West

“The Struggle of people against power, is the struggle of Memory against forgetting”, wrote Milan Kundera.

“Reflections on practice and experience itself give birth to a theory”… Amilcar Cabral

INTRODUCTION

It is funny to see how sometimes the same story can be perceived differently. I was back in the nineteenth district of Paris for some few days, last week.

The move to impose the UPOV-compliant Plant Breeders' Bill on Ghanaians suffered a major set-back on Tuesday, November 11, 2014. This is a significant victory given the level of push back our campaign received from the MPs and the entire apparatus of state of the Mahama Administration.