Governance

[The momorial service for was held in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, 10 November 2015.">

Programme director, the Ngcobo famiy and relatives, Ma-Afrika, friends, ladies and gentlemen,

If his predecessors’ trajectory is any indication he’ll join some corporate boards or a law firm and be paid handsomely to advance Canadian business interests in Africa.

“The oppressed peoples know today that national liberation is a part of process of historic development but they also know that this liberation must be the work of the oppressed people”. Frantz Fanon: Towards African Revolution ©1967

Sitting miles away from where Ethiopia’s present-day drought and food insecurities due to lack of rain are unraveling, the political city of Africa, Addis Ababa, is calm inside its usual day-to-day hectic tone.

"There will be no shortage of those who try to take advantage of difficult situations to maintain that commitment to the restoration of capitalism, neoliberalism, to end with the country" -Hugo Chávez, 2012

I read yesterday (Sunday, 8 November 2015) from www.elombah.com that the Nigerian police killed two young Nigerians who were protesting for Biafra in Delta State.

With Prime Minister Trudeau promising a kinder, more compassionate, and more forward-looking foreign policy, Africa could be a beneficiary of what may as well shape up to be a progressive turn in Africa-Canada diplomatic, political, economic ties after nearly a decade of lukewarm attitude towards

During the 1970s-1990s much attention was focused on the rising debt crisis in post-colonial Africa.

On October 25, 2015 Tanzania went to the polls to elect a new president and representatives as mandated by the Constitution.

10 November 1995 was – to mix lingos – a dies horribilis par excellence for me! (A horrible day to beat all horrible days).

It was my wife's birthday, and I had planned a nice little outing for just the two of us.