The kind of tragic exploitation of workers in Bangladesh is present all over Africa, where people are denied basic labour rights as part of state efforts to attract and retain foreign investment. Militant and sustained efforts are needed to resist this trend

As the World Economic Forum meets in Cape Town this week [8-10 May], they must commit to implementing programs that will assist the millions being left behind by economic growth. Otherwise, social and economic progress on the continent will be undermined

Warnings that there will be war if Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is not re-elected in 2015 are an anathema to genuine democracy, tolerance and fair play in Africa’s most populous nation that should be leading by example

For Sudan which listed as a sponsor of terrorism and whose president is a suspected war criminal, the invitation to Washington of Al Bashir’s aide is an extraordinary reward to a regime that craves nothing so much as legitimacy, and to a man who is utterly ruthless and savagely cruel

If the Nigerian government is sincere about achieving peace and solving the recurring problem of electoral violence, it must implement the Sheikh Lemu Report wholly and not selectively. It must, as recommended, mete out punishments alongside compensation and adopt preventive measures

On the 40th anniversary of the shooting and capture of Assata Shakur, the FBI and the State of New Jersey has now placed the African American revolutionary on the most wanted terrorist list

A year ago, we were hopeful that your presidency would open a new chapter in overhauling the World Bank’s justice system. But a year later, the presidential mantle that we had hoped would dismantle the racist institutional culture seems to be drawn toward the center of gravity of the status quo

When Barack Obama leaves the White House in January 2017, what will black America, his earliest and most consistent supporters, have to show for making his political career possible? We'll have the T-shirts and buttons and posters, the souvenirs. That will be the good news. The bad news is what else we'll have.... and not.

The bombers may have dreamt of finding the final solution to the domination of their chosen sports by people of African descent

How can the German Federal Cultural Foundation believe that 2 million Euros will promote cultural relations with the whole continent of Africa (and not even involve the Africans in the process)?

More international talks on Somalia are lined up; international financial institutions are ready for business with the recovering nation...All this portends good for Somalia and Somalis should not squander this chance to restore their nation to peace and prosperity

The decision by the Jonathan administration to grant amnesty to Boko Haram does not inspire much hope, given that similar steps have not solved the problem of militant groups in the past. A national congress on the future of Nigeria is needed

The US has been practicing diplocrisy in Ethiopia for the past two decades. It has propped up the regime of the late Meles Zenawi with billions of dollars of ‘development’ and ‘humanitarian’ aid while filling the stomachs of starving Ethiopians with empty words and emptier promises.

Freedom of the press and the existence of political parties do not exist in Africa’s only kingdom of Mswati III of Swaziland. The fine imposed on the publisher of the Nation magazine by the Swazi High Court continues the suffocation of the Swazi press and journalists.

Nigeria is unworkable as one nation-state because of intractable internal ethnic rivalries and the deeply rooted determination of the north to Islamise everyone.

With the violent overthrow of democratically elected President Gbagbo, Ivory Coast has reverted to its old status of a French colony in fact. The hands of French, Western and UN officials drip with the blood of Ivorians

Let the government of Nigeria proceed with an amnesty for Boko Haram. But it should also announce a package of compensation for individuals and organizations that suffered injustice at the hands of terror group

The overwhelming majority of non-governmental organisations do more harm than good to livelihoods and sustainable developments in Africa

Massive human rights violations are taking place in the US and contradict American efforts to project itself as a champion of human rights, even as it subverts governments around the world, engages in high-tech terrorism and kills its own citizens

Multinational used transfer mispricing to avoid paying the government of Kenya nearly US$11 million (EUR8 million) in corporate income tax