This weekend saw the twenty-first edition of the Kilimanjaro marathon. The race, which started as a very local affair involving mainly Tanzanians, has now grown to...
There is no acceptance speech in the Middle East and North Africa’s political landscape. Independent observers are faced with dichotomous perceptions about the way democracy and...
In a leisurely perusal of a Kenyan publication, the Daily Nation, I stumbled upon an item that caught my attention with the title, THIS DAY IN...
It is yet another moment of transition for Nigeria as the country goes to the polls in 4 days’ time to elect a new President and...
“Now go and see if you can find the same levels of enthusiasm in the Standard VII students,” my boss told me. I had wandered away...
In Zambia, the questions of access to information (ATI), regulation of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and the media have been a thorny generational issues which provokes personal,...
“Africa Is not for Sale. Africa is open for business not for sale or looting. We must defend what is ours and make sure that no...
The naira exchange affliction of 1984 rose up a second time in 2022 and spilled into 2023 because it has always been the choice of Nigeria...
Here goes another nostalgic musing of days gone by, when intense intellectual exchanges would take place long-distance across the African continent without losing their immediacy and...
Uganda, the 1990s shining Africa poster boy for privatisation, is engaging in what could be East Africa’s biggest economic liberalisation reverse gear. Last year, the Uganda...