Afrikan unity after 500 years of a holocaust cannot be like perfect geometrical shapes. Yet it is imperative that the 54 countries that make up the Afrikan continent unite to solve the conflicts facing Afrikans at home and abroad

Zimbabwe is being attacked because it is tired of flag independence and seeks to control its own riches. Africa must defend Zimbabwe

We have the ability to limit climate change’s negative effects but only if we act, only if we change, only if we critically revisit and redefine what it is that drives us. We must revisit the goals that motivate us and between ourselves and our environment

The African continent accounts for only one percent of global manufacturing. To reverse this dismal state of affairs government must lead the process of industrialisation with political will channelled into education, science and technology, which are the missing links to West Africa’s future

A strong-but-decentralized state model is not necessarily ‘the answer’ to the problem of development in Africa, but it is a critical part of that answer. The state has a very important role in creating the conditions and directing development in a nation

Robert Mugabe is on a twin mission to challenge Western neo-colonial quests in Zimbabwe and to continue the indigenization of the country’s economy at all costs. For these reasons it is unlikely he will retire from politics in 2018

‘I believe that a strong and powerful United Africa will make a profound difference, for the better, in how Black people are perceived and treated in the United States, just as a strong global China has done for Chinese Americans’

It is manifestly impossible to hold free and fair elections anywhere in Africa. And Nigerians should brace themselves for 2015. Progressive forces should vigorously demand fundamental electoral reforms

Nigerian leaders are not curse, as former President Obasanjo now asserts. There are historical and structural reasons why people of the country and others in Africa are suffering from incompetent leadership

Steal big and damn the consequences. After all, law is made to be broken! No one should delude himself that a tainted person will back laws that could mean a long spell in jail for them. That is the tragedy in Nigeria’s war against corruption

Successive Nigerian governments have should abysmal disregard for the labour rights of public university lecturers. The state willingly enters into agreements with the workers;, only to fail to implement those commitments

It is nearly 20 years since South Africa called itself ‘New South Africa’. But the outcome of Mr. Mandela’s negotiations and his ANC colleagues reveals that they were superficial and tainted with appeasement. Racial oppression has morphed seamlessly into oppression based on economic circumstance

The constitution allows Kenyans in the diaspora to vote and there is adequate evidence of the diaspora’s active involvement in national development over the years. What is more, the African Union now recognizes diaspora as its sixth region. But still this writer has his reasons for urging Kenyans overseas to return

Political parties do not take part in elections, only individuals do. And they are not allowed to campaign. It is a farce

Sources say the peacekeepers are struggling with equipment problems, poor training of some contingents and the reluctance by some governments to send their soldiers into combat zones

I would like to add substance to articles written and dialogues called in the name of the youth but which only ever seem to reflect a youth generation in 2013 that cannot think and debate topical issues in South Africa’s socio-economics and politics

Egyptians must know that the teargas, bullets, water cannons, the fighter jets, tanks, attack helicopters and all the weapons of mass intimidation being used against them by the military and police have been paid for with American tax-payers’ money

The government of Paul Kagame continues to relentlessly support, arm and command rebel groups such as the M23, which commit war crimes and human rights violations in Congo

Ethiopia is a major US ally in the Horn of Africa, yet America does not seem to be concerned about the blatant violations of human rights, lawless governance and unmitigated corruption by the regime in Addis Ababa

Rallying around each case of police violence and sitting down when the issue in no longer in the news will not tackle this oppressive behaviour. Here are some ideas on how to organize