Sokari Ekine

Towards the end of last year, Nigerian writer Ikhide R.

I haven't watched the Kony2012 video but I note it has just under 84 million hits in two weeks, which is to be expected considering the noise around the Invisible Children project.

In the early hours of 29 February 2004, the democratically elected Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his wife Mildred were forced to leave their home under escort of the US military and summarily marched onto an unmarked plane whose destination they did not know.

2 1/2 years since it’s first reading in October 2009, the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill

Occupy Nigeria has come and gone. Senegal’s week of mass protests continues in sporadic outbursts and it remains to be seen if people will respond to Youssou N’dour’s call for a mass rally next Sunday.

Is the Nigerian ‘revolution’ over? Was it just a brief moment in our history when everyone came together believing that this time things would be different? Or has there been a permanent shift in consciousness?

On Monday 9 January, the first day of the Nigerian nationwide indefinite strike, my fellow blogger, Emmanuel Iduma, wrote a post ‘See, The Nigerian Revolution Has Begun’. Emmanuel is a young man, a writer, modest and maybe a little shy.

Every few weeks a discussion pops up around African awakenings/uprisings, but I am not wholly convinced this is a reality beyond Tunisia and Egypt at least.

Eight months after the removal of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian revolutionaries have returned to Tahrir Square as hundreds of thousands protest, calling for an end to military rule.

Almost a year has passed since my last last trip to Haiti. I so much wanted to see some positive change in the lives of people but instead what I witnessed was a continuation of the slow and aggressive violence against the 99 per cent.