Recent drums of division, violence and intolerance beating across the federation underscore the growing frustrations of Nigerians everywhere.
Democracy & Governance
The old way
‘I grew up in Rhodesia,’ I said out loud recently, whilst taking a walk with my son (he’s 35, I’m 69).
His face soured.
‘Why do you have to say that? Why can’t you say Zimbabwe?’
At a Higher Judicial Council meeting in Cameroon chaired by President Paul Biya on 7 June, it was expected that at the top of the agenda would be the Anglophone Problem and the arrest of 28 civil society leaders from Anglophone Cameroon.
Last week, for the third time in the past year, the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) unplugged the internet.
Politics are in shambles across the world. Populism and political gambles are making headlines from London to Washington. Southern Africa is no exception.
Morocco’s Hirak protests are the latest bout in the tug-of-war between the Makhzen (Moroccan regime) and the victims of hogra. The late Mouhcine Fikri, the political prisoner Nasser Zefzafi, and Nawal Ben Aissa have emerged as the emblematic figures of this movement.
The need to restructure the Nigerian state has gained populist currency in the past few years. Especially, since the beginning of 2017, it has become a consensus call coming from almost all the ethnical, political and geographical sections that make up the corporate Nigerian state.
Introduction
A recent trip to Cuba by this author inspired the following letter. It is directed to the Cuban people.
Mr. Rudolf Marquardt, a computer malware expert in Germany, travelled to Kenya for the first time in 2001 on the invitation of a Kenyan lady he met earlier that year in Germany.