Comment & analysis

On 1 August 1838, enslaved Africans in the British Empire won their emancipation from slavery. Emancipation Day is now commemorated throughout the Anglophone Caribbean as a public holiday or national observance. Emancipation was not a gift from Britain or White abolitionists.

I do not like white people.

Because of this affirmation some would call me a racist.

To this I answer, fine: I am a racist.

A few years ago, a mentor of mine gave me a lesson in Kenya’s diplomatic rule of thumb.

The memory of a widely transmitted gory video of a gang of iniquitous cadets of the Kaduna-based Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) literally tearing a young man apart will not fade away as long as Nigeria exists.

The African Union will not be deploying 5,000 troops to Burundi without Burundi’s consent. The A.U. summarily dismissed the U.S.-backed proposal at the African Union Summit of member states at the end of January.

Date: Friday, February 13, 1976. Place: Ahmadu Bahago Teachers’ College (ABTC), Minna, capital of Nigeria’s north central state of Niger.

Life is always difficult in the shacks. If you are poor and black you can be killed with impunity. But it is not only the politicians and their izinkabi, or the police or private security companies that take our lives. We live in life threatening conditions every day.

A child who dies before the age of five is robbed of a life—and also of the chance to participate and contribute to their community and country. For African leaders, determining how to best ensure that children survive and live productive lives isn’t easy.

You do not need the statement of a run-of-the-mill prophet or parapsychologist on this: Donald Trump will fly the flag of the Republican Party in the November 4 presidential election in the United States.

Everyone has the right to be born with a nationality – safe, fearless and free – and secure in their human right to equally transfer, acquire, change or retain it.