Governance

When Barack Obama was elected President of the Harvard Law Review in 1991, the news reverberated across the United States. It had never happened before that an African-American could be elected to that venerable position.

How can one tell that the 21st century is going to be the century of the woman? This is not measured by the possibility that Hillary Clinton may be the first female president in US history, come election of 2016.

October 2015 makes it three years since four undergraduate students of the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria were, on allegations of mobile phone and computer theft, brutally beaten and set ablaze in a low-income community plagued by unresolved crimes.

Following the discovery of ‘Homo Naledi’on 10 September 2015 at Maropeng in Azania (South Africa) by Prof. Lee Berger and his team, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution surfaced again.

Experts in developmental psychology refer to the age of 40s and 50s as an age of ‘mid-life crisis’. Philosophers of Science would refer to this as a period when a paradigm shift can happen.

Tanzania is often portrayed as an African success story of state and nation-building, surrounded by nervy neighbours like Kenya whose 2008 post-election violence left an indelible scar on its political conscience; or Uganda, South Sudan, and more recently Pierre Nkuruzinza’s Burundi, all of which

Ghana’s population, now close to 27 million, is projected to double to 60 million by 2050 before tapering off, the Daily Graphic reported recently. For some that is alarming news. For a forward-looking government in charge of a growing economy, it could be a promise of wealth.

Sunday, 11 October 2015

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Bryan Habana scores his hat-trick against the American Eagles at the 2015 Rugby World Cup