Governance

Recently, Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta ‘approved’ the appointment of 11 judges out of the 25 nominated by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).

Zahra Moloo interviews Nnimmo Bassey co-founder of Environmental Rights Action (ERA), a Nigerian advocacy NGO, also known as Friends of the Earth Nigeria. Bassey has been involved in the struggle against oil exploitation in the Niger Delta. In 2010 he was awarded the Right Livelihood award.

A settlement will soon be finalized, in New York City, that will award five no longer young Black men $40 million for spending between 7 and 13 years in prison for a crime they did not commit.

For Egyptian youth who took to the streets in 2011, Alaa Abd El Fattah was an icon of the revolution. Police arrested the blogger and activist, then just 23 years old, for protesting under former autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

Beki and his friends sit around a table on the deserted terrace of the Sally café on Addis Ababa’s bustling Bole road. The sun is beginning to set and the cool evening air has driven the other patrons inside.

In 2014 Pan Africanists will commemorate two seminal events in the history of the African liberation movement: 1) the 50th anniversary of the successful revolution in Zanzibar and 2) the 90th birthday of Mohamed Babu.

‘As a child in Haiti laying in my bed, I heard the Tams Tams of the Vodou drums beating all nights. These beats were telling the stories of my African ancestors, of their struggles, and their survival, their self determination and resistance to domination to keep their dignity.

Malawi is one of the most aid dependent countries in the world.

Africa’s political leaders are under illusion to believe that foreign direct investments (FDIs) will get them out of their development crisis.