It is easy for us to turn our face and keep quiet when injustice is being visited on other people. If someone is being kicked to death outside our doors …
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Africa
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Recently, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation released its rating of what it considered ‘good governance’ in African countries with indexes based on security, legislation, transparency and corruption, human rights, poverty and health, …
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My fervent contention is that in unorganised societies, especially in Afro-Asian states, democracy is no longer a viable political system…
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Britain ought to be acting like a father nation to Anglophone Africa as a whole, but unfortunately it acts like a biased and dubious father. Britain applies different rules to …
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Politics and politicians have conspired lately to imperil the fortunes of a hitherto peaceful Kenya. The ‘Uhuru’ paradise is being desecrated! Destroyed!
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I must confess that I stayed up all night yesterday, against all odds, gloating as the results of the Iowa Democratic Party caucus trickled in. as the night wore on, …
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The orgy of naked terrorism and the festival of bloodletting from Palestine to Iraq, Israel to Afghanistan, Pakistan to Sudan make the world a worse place to live in…
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Rewind. Then press play. Two moving pictures stand out as box office hits in the last days of 2007: the tragic death of Benazir Bhutto and removal of Nuhu Ribadu as …
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As another year unfolds, humanity guesses and gazes over the horizon and horoscope to be able to come to terms with the likelihood of failures or successes as we try …
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AFRICOM’s creation has a lot to do with US energy interests in Africa. The Gulf of Guinea has large amounts of oil, particularly Nigeria which has become an important oil …
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AFRICOM’s creation has a lot to do with US energy interests in Africa. The Gulf of Guinea has large amounts of oil, particularly Nigeria which has become an important oil …
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The awareness has increased that the prevention and eradication of corruption is a responsibility of all states and that they must cooperate with each other…
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Ghaddafi is a unique leader in the sense that he has successfully used the oil wealth in his country to positively effect massive empowerment and impact on the lives of …
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Like the living hydra, corruption manifests in many forms…
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Like a phoenix, China is soaring. A bi-polar world has emerged. Chinese diplomacy is having a profound effect on world politics…
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In contemporary world society, there are political leaders who have refused to accept modernity but have sustained the anachronistic practices enshrined in a perverted version of the Abrahamic religion…