Governance

When you think of Angola most people think of the 27-year-long civil war which ended in 2002. Some may even think of oil and diamonds.

Thus spoke Reeyot Alemu to the Voice of America- Amharic Service on July 9, 2015, a few hours after she was literally thrown out of the infamous Meles Zenawi Prison in Kality (Ethiopia’s “Robben Island”), on the outskirts of Addis Ababa:

There is never going to be development. Not in Africa, at least not in Zimbabwe where I come from, or in any other place that we continue to define as developing, less developed, underdeveloped. Someone needs to say it.

Kenyans are obsessed with politics — and love talking about it, almost all the time. The media are obsessed about politics, devoting most of their coverage to politics and politicians. Nearly 100 per cent of op-ed pieces deal with politics (including, I have to confess, most of mine).

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The kota sold by Christies for Euro 5.5m in Paris on 23 June 2015.

The Art Newspaper informs us that a kota has fetched a very high price in Paris:

Since June 20, much has been said and written about the detained Angolan book club ac

In the middle of this month, I read three sets of papers that told the same story – do not fight terrorism with terrorist methods.

I am ashamed of the inconceivable act of transgression that happened in multiple forms when at the Carnival in Swakopmund some dressed in costumes of the Ku-Klux-Klan; the German “Allgemeine Zeitung” pictured these as an attire of “originality”.

On Friday night 3 July, three more women fell prey to Glebelands warlord. After threatening letters stating “If you want to die, stay in your room,” were shoved under their doors, they were shot at and forced from their rooms in Blocks 45 and 48.