On Thursday December 27th 2007, shortly after polling stations were closed, Kenya was hailed as having fulfilled an African dream – to…
Mukoma Ngugi
As the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) prepares to sue the British Government for personal injuries sustained by survivors of the Mau…
In April this year, we celebrated 50 yrs of Ghana’s Independence. In October, we are marking the 20th year since Thomas Sankara’s …
We either value African life, understand a black life as equal to a white life and the poor as equally deserving as…
Africa – Unite or Perish! Kwame Nkrumah might as well have been referring to the threat from the ever diversifying number of…
When in 1946 Winston Churchill called for a United States of Europe, so soon after the World War II, many must have…
A few months into trying to organize the first Toward an Africa without Borders Conference in 2002 it suddenly hit me -…
Keep this question in mind: What good would it have done the world if Idi Amin had saved a drowning African child?…
Some of the most important threats to democracy in Africa are the International Republican Institute (IRI), USAID and other international NGO’s that…
Roots of Optimism and Contradictions The Berlin Wall is dismantled brick by brick in November of 1989. It becomes a symbol of…
