Governance

Few eyebrows would have been raised were Mr. Jacob Zuma the life-president of any of the several banana republics that dot the African continent. But this is Africa’s reputed rainbow nation and the continent’s undisputed economic hub. Hell!

What do honest, decent and innocent people do when they are tossed before a judge for an offence they never committed? Do they run from pillar to post, accuse witches, waste millions in legal fees or waste millions in seeking intercession of clerics and jujumen?

‘Tropical Gangsters’, a book about the leaders of Equatorial Guinea, was one of the six best nonfiction books in 1990, according to the editors of the New York Times Book Review.

If, as is the fad in Africa, compatriots do not prevail upon him to change his mind, Angola’s veteran leader, the normally-reticent and manipulative Eduardo dos Santos, will vacate his peacock throne in 2018. By then, Mr.

Skewed Economics

As we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of our Constitution, the government’s cavalier disregard for the rule of law suggests no real commitment to the human rights which are its cornerstone.

We recall that in the just concluded 2015 general elections in the country, Nigerian women voted overwhelming for CHANGE but are now faced with rights impediment by male politicians who clearly do not have any interest in promulgating laws aimed at protecting and safeguarding women’s rights as gu

AN ATHEIST’S PROPHECY

As Zanzibar gears up for a rerun of presidential, legislative and local councils elections that were annulled in October 2015, I can’t help but react to comments attributed to the Regional Commissioner (RC) of Mwanza, Magessa Mulongo on March 8 while commemorating International Women’s Day.

INTRODUCTION