Governance

The Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa bloc met in Durban at the end of March last year, expressing both continental and global ambitions. But things have not gone well since then.

The secrecy-obsessed regime in Ethiopia has a huge creepy dragnet of secret electronic surveillance programs to sniff out the deeply-buried secrets of the people of Ethiopia. They spend sleepless nights interrogating themselves about what the people could do to them.

Too often our people look to the past thinking it is better than now

Thinking that the era of military dictatorships had no corruption,

That things were better in the past, that things worked,

There was no inflation in the idealised past.

I remain unapologetic in my support for, and advocacy around, the issue of reparations for the victims of the genocide of the indigenous people of the Caribbean and the inhuman trade in African people.

Algeria's next presidential elections will be held on 17 April 2014 and for the last few months; this important electoral rendezvous showed all the hallmarks of a masquerade, consistent with almost all the elections in the history of the Algerian state since independence in 1962.

HIS story (otherwise commonly known as history), continues to tell narratives and accounts of the past from a male perspective.

The Zambian currency, the Kwacha, has now been ranked the worst performing currency in Africa already in 2014. This is not a palatable diagnosis and I am at odds to reconcile what I am stating with what is going on in my mind.

‘I am gay and I am catholic and I can not say it out because of fear of victimization. I realized that I was gay when I was 16. I was born like this and I know many of my friends who are gay.

The following gallery of the wealth titans of Africa is both impressive and sad in that it features the political leaders whose call is to serve and not rob their countries. The list, though incomplete and, the figures estimated, they are roughly representative of their net worth.

As Malawi gears up to go to what many are calling the closest electoral race in its history, a new report entitled: ‘Malawi- Political Participation and Democracy,’ has pointed to the missed opportunity for elector