Democracy & Governance

Does the majority of Black people have an interest in supporting the development of a Black capitalist class?

After amending the constitution to be able to run indefinitely Paul Kagame recently won 98.63% of votes in Rwanda’s presidential election.

Mao Tse-Tung once proclaimed that a revolution is not a “dinner party” but an “insurrection, an act of violence” in which a group of subjugated people in a power relation overthrows the other that controls this power of subjugation.

Mr. President, 

This open letter is necessitated by issues of urgent national importance not unconnected with your 3 minute pre-recorded broadcast to Nigerians this Monday, the 21st day of August, 2017, where you stated that Nigeria's unity is settled and not negotiable.

Introduction

Last week’s bitterly contested election in Kenya has placed the country in the international spotlight.

For many Angolans and observers, yesterday’s general elections offered both a historic new start and sadly, more of the same.

I am a native of Rwanda who lived through the horrors of genocide. I am currently a refugee in the United States. As I watch Charlottesville, I recall with sadness the tragic genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and subsequent years.

Marxist literature makes a distinction between the “base” of a socio-political entity like a nation-state and its “superstructure”.  To put it simply, the "base" comprises the economy and science and technology applied in production, and the "superstructure" comprises the government, laws, r

Just the other day a childhood friend sent me a video recording of Simon and Garfunkel’s famous 1960s chart buster and an all-time great, the ‘Sound of Silence’. Just imagine the joy and nostalgia that I experienced from listening to this masterpiece.