Governance

I have previously responded to some of the issues that Dr. James Ocita, the former Assistant Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), keeps on recycling. Dr. Ocita is a gifted writer whose impressive rhetoric conceals the monotony of his incessant lamentation.

Dear Mr President,

Maybe you have been wondering about those “principles laid down in the Constitution”, to which the Supreme Court referred when deciding that the August 8 presidential election had not been conducted in accordance with the Constitution and the law.

“…Cubans have nothing.” These were the last words exchanged between a stranger and myself as we both stood in line at JFK Airport waiting to check our bags for a flight to Havana.

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Shortly after the Supreme Court nullified President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election, I came across a post on social media by a citizen journalist in Kitengela narrating how National Super Alliance and Jubilee supporters were massed on opposite sides of a road touting one another.

Dear Marietje Schaake

The on-going attempt by the National Assembly to pass a law to control and undermine the operations of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) should be condemned by every Nigerian.

On 26 June, the first day of Eid celebrations, a popular march that was organised in the town of Hoceima, northern Morocco, was brutally repressed.

I would like to preface the thoughts by offering my deepest condolences to the families of the Malawians, many of them reported to be children, who were killed

Problematising the challenge