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THIS year marks the 50th anniversary since the publication of Okot p'Bitek's poem, Song of Lawino. The significance of this poem was at least in three ways.
ONE of the things I did soon after retiring from The Guardian Limited was to fill in a subscription form and pay the amount I was supposed to pay.
TWENTY years of a newspaper’s existence in an unpredictable work environment regulated by a far-from-friendly law regime might be cited as an achievement for The Guardian, the pioneering private...
THE question of Burundi, and the deployment of a 5 000-strong African Union (AU) force to the country - against the will of the Burundian government - was always going to pit the institutions of...
It is electioneering season once again across the region: A time when gender bias is made manifest without the slightest tinge of shame, especially by male politicians. This agenda is being...
Election fever simply won’t leave East Africa alone: After last year’s debacle in Burundi and the hotly-contested Tanzanian polls, it is now Uganda’s turn. As a result, election observers from the...
Former dictator, Hissene Habre (74) was President of Chad from 1982 - 90 during which an estimated 40,000 people were executed in politically motivated killings and some 200,000 others tortured in...
A long lasting solution to the age old Zanzibar government versus opposition conflict is yet around the corner.
Getting more Africans online will require not only drones and lasers — to name just two of the whiz-bang tools philanthro-capitalists want to use to expand access — but also a more grounded...
THIS year, like 2015, promises to be yet another busy year in Africa's electoral democracy stakes. More than a third of the continent's 54 countries will conduct polls.
THE former President Olusegun Obasanjo has written the National Assembly accusing the lawmakers of corruption, impunity, greed and of repeatedly breaking the nation's laws.
A few weeks ago, we had the opportunity to climb Mount Kilimanjaro using the Machame Route.
NAPOLEON said that an army marches on it stomach. He meant, of course, that starving soldiers don’t win battles. In other words make sure you look after the troops, the foot soldiers.
