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The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (also known as the Banjul Charter) is an international human rights instrument that is intended to promote and protect human rights and basic freedoms in the African continent.

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For the second time in a little over thirty years, General Muhammadu Buhari is heading another ‘corrective’ government. When he first came in as military head of state on New Year’s Eve 1984, it was to clear the mess left behind by politicians of the Second Republic.

Burundi’s current deadlock, on its face, hinges on the president’s staunch determination to run for another presidential term, after ten years in office.

On Monday [25 May"> many African Government offices, businesses and banks grind to a halt in order to commemorate Africa Day.

Frantz Fanon's seminal text, Wretched of the Earth, has inspired entire nations of people over the last century in their struggle against colonial occupation, especially on the

As history unfolds in Nigeria, it does appear that “the more things change the more they remain the same”. As a military dictator thirty-two years ago, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) truncated Nigeria’s Second Republic which was reputed for its scandalous corruption.

Although political apartheid was dismantled by the 1994 election of President Nelson Mandela in South Africa, a new form of economic apartheid is now stalking the entire African continent.