Mukoma Wa Ngugi

Here below, are ten ways, and I invite you to think of your own, through which Westerners can contribute to what Nelson Mandela in the struggle against apartheid referred to as a ‘profound and irreversible change’.

I have been asked many times a variation of the same question: ‘Why do Africans wait until it is too late?’ For most Westerners, Africa is hunger, war, despotism, AIDS and poverty – full of Africans who are either helpless victims, or who choose to sit on their hands, only lifting them up to acce

In rounding up and reflecting on the various responses coming from Africa on the now widely condemned Israeli Gaza invasion that has left 700 Palestinians and 12 Israelis dead, it is best to b

Countee Cullen, a black American poet, once asked: What is Africa to me?

With the US elections just days away, and Africans holding their breath, fingers mostly crossed for Obama, I find I have to reverse the question and ask: What is America to me?

The Pan-African Parliament was very clear in its condemnation of the one-man show.