Much of African culture has to change fast. Outsiders cannot help us find our collective identity an...

The slave masters who benefited from that crime against humanity have been given reparations for los...

One of the political conditionalities imposed on African governments by the IFIs and the “donor-comm...

African Arabs never regard themselves as Africans but rather as Arabs living in Africa. This stand i...

Are we independent when the first thing we do after winning elections is to fly to Europe to open ba...

The opposition introduced the Gorbachev Factor to our political climate and that will ultimately be...

Throw every single one of them out and vote in fresh new faces or the Cheetah generation: the young...

What Kenyans want can assume any name so long as in principle, they have an effective say in the way...

Kenyans go to the polls on Dec 27, 2007. The mood of the electorate is one of betrayal, disappointme...

Kenyans liked to joke that the letters in Moi's name stood for "My Own Interest." After he succeeded...

It is essential that political parties strategically think about structural reorganisation in order...

Democracy as we know it in Kenya, offers ventilation on what politicians do over the five year perio...

Reform requires democratization, market liberalization, decentralization of power, and repair of dys...

Let us face it. No price tag can be put on human life. Kenya is more than ODM and PNU, Kibaki, Raila...

The bloodlettings in Kenya, Chad, Congo, and elsewhere are but the warning tremors of the very thing...

There's something about the deficiency in public service in 'independent' Africa that drives citizen...

Proliferation of political parties will have no bearing towards a transformation to free market exce...

For two decades, Uganda has operated without political parties. These were suspended when President...

Zimbabwe's electoral system is so discredited that no amount of demagoguery by SEOT can sanctify the...

I am uncomfortable with what I believe to be the MDC’s old-style client-patron relationship with the...

Several underlying issues about the genocide still need to be unearthed. The world deserves to know...

Sovereignty demands that a state be free from interference from external forces and one that is inde...

If not announcing critical results after an election is “a normal electoral process according to the...

If the size of cabinet increases, then there is less national cake to be shared privately among his...

When Chinese President Hu Jintao promised five billion United States dollars in loans and credits to...

This is an incurable habit of the West: the inability to stop condescending, directing and ordering...

What new thing will he do for Malawi that he failed to do for two terms in office? If anything, M...

Africa will not experience democracy if the Press is not allowed to keep the populace informed and h...

Since changes in society normally come through the political process, the need for women to be among...

Doesn’t the winning by the Zimbabwean Opposition of more votes in both parliamentary and presidentia...