On 22 May 2020, I wrote an opinion piece in which I described the Southern African Development Community (SADC) as…
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On Tuesday, Governor Nasir El-Rufai addressed a high-powered meeting on the violent crisis in parts of southern Kaduna. He expressed…
Ethiopia is convulsing with national problems that will test the mettle of Abiy Ahmed’s administration. The country also faces a…
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has released a revision of its January 2020 African Economic Outlook. The subtitle of the initial…
The election of Lazarus Chakwera as President of Malawi is a cause for celebration, for multiple reasons. One reason is…
On Monday, 22 June 2020, some notable young people in Zambia staged a protest in an undisclosed location, lamenting Zambia’s…
Pierre Nkurunziza’s unforeseen death is as baffling as the recent politics of the country he led for the last 15…
The killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in the United States has provoked widespread protests and revived the “Black Lives…
Last week I wrote a commentary about the worrying circumstances surrounding Burundi’s run-up to the 20 May 2020 elections. Burundi’s tragic history…
Africans ought to spare a thought for Burundi; the country is in political turmoil, and it will probably pay in…
28 April 2020 marked the 96th birthday of Zambia’s founding president, Kenneth Kaunda (informally and affectionately called KK). Born in…
When John Pombe Magufuli was elected President of Tanzania in 2015, there was widespread frenzy and optimism, inspired by his…
It is considered as a self-evident fact that every crisis carries within it the twin components of both danger and…
On 27 March 2020, Thandika Mkandawire, a Malawian professor of economics, died in Stockholm. With COVID-19 dominating global attention and…
There is an apocryphal argument that Abraham Lincoln once said: “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test…
That COVID-19 will be on the ascent in the near future seems probable if not inescapable. In the face of…
Much has been written and said about the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The World Health Organization (WHO) has finally characterized…
Even though South Sudanese president Salva Kiir has reconfigured his government, incorporating his principal nemesis, Riek Machar, as his first…
There are few things more richly deserved than the punishment of a profligate ruler who finds himself fending off a…
Nigeria’s ruling class has presented the nation with a number of issues around which the Nigerian Left can build an…
Never undertake a prosecution unless you have good grounds, and prospects, for a solid conviction. In the case against President…
Following the president’s remarks that he is surprised at the growing insecurity in the country, what Nigerians are asking is:…
Let me begin by saying that the term “idealist” is not used in this article in the philosophical sense. Were…
In my column article of January 6 – a riposte to Isa Funtua’s prejudiced utterance on the Igbo — I…
January 15 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Nigerian Civil War and the official end of the short-lived…
Dictators cannot survive for long without repressing and oppressing the people and buttering up security agencies. General Muhammadu Buhari is…
Last Saturday, France, through the instrumentality of their most faithful poodle in West Africa, Alasane Ouattara kidnapped the West African…
It would be an understatement to claim that Bougainville, that blighted piece of autonomous territory in Papua New Guinea, had…
Parasites have a certain weight in history. Donors to a system, a state, a company, always claim to be giving…
This year, China as Intimidating Monster has become the popular motif in Canberra circles. Australian government members Andrew Hastie and…
