Governance

These questions penetrate to the heart of the World Bank’s development model and throw its loudly and expensively self-promoted claim to serve the interests of the world’s poor into stark relief.

"Getting a good education is my best bet out of poverty," said a 16-year-old in Narok County in Kenya. Yet, on that fateful morning of 2 April 2005 at Garissa University College in Kenya, the dreams of 147 lives and their families were shattered into pieces.

There is so much killing committed by so many nations, groups, and individuals that it is hard to know where to begin in condemning it all. Of course the biggest mass killers are and always have been governments.

It has been a month since five armed men in civilian clothes kidnapped Itai Dzamara, a prominent Zimbabwean human rights activist, near his home in the Glenview suburb of Harare.

Over the past ten years or more, heads of state across many of Africa’s new democracies have attempted to modify their country’s constitutions to prolong their mandates.

Manuel Castells, one of the leading social scientists of our time, asserts that throughout history universities have frequently played critical roles in the social transformation of societies, in addition to their traditional role of knowledge production and the training of a skilled national lab

One question that is often asked, especially in contested liberation environments, is whether liberation should be pursued through armed struggle or nonviolent means. Africa and the rest of the global south are at a crossroads as to which is best suited in their environments.

To
The Judicial Service Commission,
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The Hon. The Chief Justice,
President of the Supreme Court of Kenya &
The Chairman, Judicial Service Commission,
Supreme Court Building,
Nairobi.

Rilwan Akiolu, the oba or king of Lagos, Nigeria, has issued a proclamation to murder Igbo people domiciled in Lagos if they, the Igbo, do not vote for the king’s ‘preferred candidate’ in the mid-April 2015 Lagos region governor’s election.

In the broader scheme of things, how significant are the recent waves of protest that have engulfed South Africa over the past decade?