Governance

President Obama likes to pontificate about being on the ‘right side of history’ and rhetorically clobber those who are on the ‘wrong side of history’.

Arriving in the Saharawi Refugee camps in the Algerian desert near Tindouf, the home of over 150, 000 or around a third of the Saharawi population indigenous to Western Sahara, one is immediately struck by the extreme heat, the lack of water, and the aridness of the landscape.

Honorable Secretary,

A few days ago, Ethiopian authorities arrested nine journalists and bloggers, subsequently denying them access to lawyers, family, and colleagues. They are held on allegations that they work for foreign human rights groups or used social media to incite violence.

Bring back our girls. The message is a simple one that resonates with millions of people around the world. Those four words were first seen in a now famous twitter hashtag in the aftermath of the kidnapping of 280 teenagers from a school in Chibok, Nigeria on April 14, 2014.

Global inequality is a topic du jour. It’s on the lips of everyone from the NGOs to the UN to the Davos set, and rightly so. Oxfam’s recent unearthing of the fact that the richest 85 people have the same wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion is truly shocking to anyone with a conscience.

The hypocrisy of race discourse in the U.S. is breathtaking.

Democracy is a political system that most African people have contested, challenged, questioned and ultimately perceived as flawed. According to generally accepted definition, democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Two decades ago, liberation was won in South Africa. In a few days, the final results of the May 7 election will confirm the popularity of the African National Congress (ANC) with a landslide victory.

Several loud gunshots came from the vicinity of the school gate, followed by piercing cries from my schoolmates. Boko Haram. It was time to say our last prayers. I took what I intended to be one last look at the bed of my best friend and neighbor.