Comment & analysis

Celebrated on Kwame Nkrumah’s birthday, September 21, Founder’s Day almost always draws some controversy over who should be named founder of modern Ghana.

Once again, the streets of the West Bank are on fire. There is talk of a Third Intifada.

Alarmingly, there has recently been a rise in calls from both within and outside Africa saying that for individual countries on the continent to pursue democracy will undermine their economic growth, development and industrialization.

As we celebrate our 55th Independence Day Anniversary of our dear country, Nigeria, on this day, 1 October 2015, I congratulate you all fellow Nigerians, brothers, sisters and friends of our dear country!

Since the announcement of its new policy on 31 March 2015, Israel has begun to force Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers within its borders to choose between so-called “voluntary departure” and indefinite

The new Ethiopian parliament was officially opened on Monday, 5 October, 2015. The best depiction that can capture the essence of this new parliament is its paramount role in the consolidation of electoral authoritarianism in Ethiopia.

Wangari Maathai was always there with us in our house in Kenya when I was growing up.

Word around town these days is that the International Criminal Court has been dealt a death-blow and recovery prospects are looking rather bleak.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has announced that it wants to launch news services to Ethiopia and Eritrea, most likely using these three indigenous languages: Amharic, Afaan Oromo and Tigrigna.

It is almost a quarter of a century since Somalia lost its statehood and status as a relevant member of the international community. Since then Somalia’s name has become synonymous with a failed state, and the word ‘Somalization’ the 21st century’s new term for ‘Balkanization’.