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Never in the modern history of popular emancipation has “not going to school” been used as a winning strategy to attain the full emancipation of a people. Let us be clear from the onset. As I acknowledged in a reflection …
Continue readingIn his book titled “The Road to Serfdom” published in 1994, Frederick Hayek posits that ‘…money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man’. For it is ‘money which in modern society opens up an outstanding …
Continue readingCongo’s electoral commission announced on Sunday that long-awaited presidential elections to replace President Joseph Kabila would take place on December 23, 2018.
Around 43 million voters have been registered for the vote so far, Corneille Nangaa told a news conference …
Continue readingZimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has fired Emmerson Mnangagwa as vice president after he showed “traits of disloyalty”, his information minister said on Monday, removing a favourite to succeed the 93-year-old leader.
Mnangagwa’s removal provides a boost for Mugabe’s wife, Grace, …
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Dan Paget, University of Oxford
There were scarcely any hints of the tumultuous years that would follow the swearing-in of Dr John Pombe Magufuli on …
Continue readingHundreds of thousands of children in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will starve to death in the next few months without emergency food aid, a UN official has said.
About 7.7 million people are on …
Continue readingBy Mercy Abang
Five years ago, Akin-Jide Ojo, then 23, completed his tertiary education at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, in Oyo State Nigeria. He proceeded to serve as a youth corps member in Taraba state living on …
Continue readingThe Zimbabwean government has purchased 226 Isuzu double cab four-wheel drive vehicles for tribal chiefs in the country to “improve their statuses”.
This was announced by Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere ahead of the annual …
Continue readingZimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has rejected the participation of election observer groups from the West during the southern African country’s 2018 presidential election.
He said the non-governmental organisations funded by the West will not be allowed to observe the elections, …
Continue readingBurundi’s president, Pierre Nkurunziza, has introduced strict controls over the country’s renowned drumming rituals, banning female drummers and limiting the sacred tradition to official events.
“It is strictly forbidden to those of the female sex to beat drums. They can …
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