
Reassessing Mandela is a reminder that even the most admired leaders operate within constraints.




The division within the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, the fact that the race was very close, and turnout was...














One's nationality can be determined by where you were born, where your parents are from, where you hold citizenship - politics, geography, circumstance and even choice....

Female MPs in Kenya have stormed out of a late-night parliamentary session in a row over the legalisation of polygamy

I am glad that I am neither a soldier nor a mercenary. Both are instruments of war and destruction. Nobody should ask me to fire machine...

Lupita Nyong’o, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Idris Elba and Chimamanda Adichie don’t resemble images of Africans that Americans are used to seeing. The cumulative effect of more such...

Many question the wisdom of interracial dating, but actually, we seem to have an equally big problem with dating between one African culture and another. Or...

I do not wish to counter the stand our leaders have taken against the International Criminal Court. They have argued that it is a racist court...

South Africa has 11 official languages, but some black people are being brought up to speak only English. Others equate speaking English with intelligence, forgetting that...


In an attempt to silence journalists, activists, NGOs and other critics, the Kenyan government is denouncing them as agent provocateurs and accusing them of being funded...

A journalist and nine others were each sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for protesting against a constitutional referendum on Monday, according to judicial sources in Egypt....