As a youngish journalist during the last decade of the last century, I had the good fortune to interact rather closely with some outstanding Ugandans in...
The recent Supreme Court judgement which affirmed the ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, was not unexpected. As Abimbola Adelaku, one of my favourite columnists, summed...
Just as we started mimicking some French phrases ahead of our acquiring French visas for next year’s Olympics, authorities in Kinshasa and Kampala last week announced...
Two mainstream newspapers have reported that President William Ruto has made 38 trips abroad in the past year. That’s three trips every month! Just the other...
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant: “We are fighting human animals”. “Human animals” might be referring to the fact that biologically we are all animals, being part...
The United Nations Security Council has approved deploying a Kenya-led international mission to Haiti to curb gang violence. The gangs have taken over most of the...
Many Africans might have missed an event that should have been at the centre of the news. On August 23, 2023, India landed a spacecraft on...
Six decades after gaining independence, African countries are once again confronting history. Within the context of geopolitical reconfiguration and the emergence of a multipolar world, we...
The current political situation in Tanzania may not resemble something you want to worry about, but if that is so, maybe you should take another look....
“Two recent events in Nigeria demonstrate state governors’ overlordship and self-absorbed nature. And with what we saw in Edo and Ogun states, it is also clear...