Governance

This is the story of Sbu.

History reveals that Britain (the United Kingdom) has never protected indigenous or non-British interests – whether in Africa, Australia, India, New Zealand and so on.

INTRODUCTION

Can a new constitution transform a society from its history of oppression, injustice, corruption and the marginalisation of the politically weak into one where the rule of law and social justice reign supreme?

October 6, 2014
Clan Federalism: The worst option for state building in Somalia

"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences." - Audre Lorde

In 2004, then Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama said that he supported an end to the economic blockade in Cuba. Yet on Sept. 5, 2014, President Obama signed the annual memorandum that continues the U.S.

Thirty eight years have passed and the Cuban people continue to demand justice. On October 6, 1976, 73 people, amongst them 11 Guyanese, 5 citizens of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and 57 Cubans were killed on a Cubana Airlines flight.

Cuba is reportedly sending the largest foreign medical team from a single country to West Africa to help fight the Ebola virus. Cuba's contribution to the development and progress of African countries is often unacknowledged in the mainstream public discourse.

That evening, two people were celebrating their birthdays. I don’t know how old they were, and right then it didn’t seem to matter, given that in a few moments they would be setting off to perhaps the last place anyone would want to go.