Democracy & Governance

The tiny East African nation of Rwanda has played a unique and prominent role in U.S. political ideation since the 1994 massacres known as the Rwandan Genocide.

There is much talk these days, especially in the Western media, about “fascism”.

[Radhi Bachir, the Ambassador to South Africa of Western Sahara, or the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), delivered this speech on 27 February 2017 during a panel discussion at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria.

For those not particularly familiar with the inner workings of that haematophagous monster which goes by the name Nigeria, the following news item in African Spotlight (Friday,12 August 2016), carried similarly by several other news organisations, could appear extraordinary if

In Act I of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Marcellus, one of the sentries at Elsinore Castle, utters the immortal line “something is rotten in the state of Denmark”, meaning that there exists in Denmark (the setting of the play) a deep malaise that is having a profoundly negative effect

In 2013, 21 members of the so-called Gdeim Izik Group were given sentences of between 20 years and life imprisonment in a military court for allegedly belonging to a “criminal group” and for acts of “deadly violence” against Moroccan “public forces in the line of duty.”

1. Tell us what life was like growing up in Western Sahara?

Author’s Note: Below is a copy of the letter I sent to President Donald Trump by email and U.S. mail.

Elections have long been held as a stabilising approach to political transitions in established Western democracies.

Let me take a few minutes of your time.

Kenya is a beautiful place, isn’t it? Opportunities abound for those willing to work hard; the land where you can be born in a small village, work hard and enjoy your lifetime in the lush suburbs of Nairobi.