Democracy & Governance

Zahra Moloo: What took you to Rwanda and what inspired you to write this book?

Today on 30^th September, 2016 the Republic of Botswana, a Southern African state of almost the same geographical size as Kenya, but with a population of just over 2.2 million inhabitants is attaining 50 years of independence.

Against the background of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, the University of Cape Town (UCT) must now contemplate the various meanings and shades of decolonisation which has been unfolding all over Africa for several decades.

Introduction

There is an article which appeared in the Australian journal “THE CONVERSATION” on 9 September 2016 titled “Somaliland wants to secede – here’s why caution is necessary

Democracy is not a concept that is too difficult to understand. It allows for what can be put in the Ghanaian language,  Twi, as  'ka-bi-ma-me-nka bi': (literally, "You say your piece  and let me too say mine".)

In his latest book entitled, We Are All Biafrans, Chido Onumah offers a very powerful discourse of Nigeria by imposing on the observable claims of marginalisation by every other group against the Nigerian state the metaphor of Biafranism.

When it comes to racial discrimination in the World Bank, Phyllis Muhammad, former Staff Counselor, has seen it all. She noted recently that: The level of racial injustice that we are seeing under Kim “would not have persisted during Wolfensohn’s time.

An elitist, nationalist bias dominates all areas of Canada’s newspaper of record.

Over twenty years ago, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni compatriots were killed in Nigeria by the General Sani Abacha junta on account of their social activism.