April 4 2016 – Two years have gone by, and still no end in sight for the ordeal that has been meted out to the so-called...
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Faced with terror, there is much between Belgium and Africa
March 24 2016 – The utterly senseless devastation that terror visits on its victims is horrendous to behold. Scenes of women, children and babies dead...
Africa’s elections are nonsensical; abolish them
It’s official, it is not working, it just isn’t. It is this election thing that I’m talking about. It clearly is not working for us...
Britain playing hard to get? Admit Turkey
Pardon me if I’ve already told you this one, but it’s a favourite of mine from a film I watched as a young man. It...
As The East African is unbanned, local paper gets banned
January 21 2016 At last this newspaper is once again circulating in Tanzania a government-imposed ban that kept it out of the country’s market for...
We shouldn’t allow Burundi to go completely to the dogs
Dember 24 2015 – I doubt there is a place on earth where people’s names praise God as much as they do in Rwanda and...
Let’s salute this Sweet Sixteen!!
December 21 2015 Our bright little lady century is coming out at the sweet age of sixteen, and this is perhaps something we may or...
Free to choose our corruption: SA style or Vanuatu?
October 22 2015 There are so many ways of appreciating issues related to corruption in our countries, and some of them can be quite edifying....
We have killed our industries, and that spells death for all of our pseudo-economies
Under the heading, “More a marathon than a sprint”, last week’s “The Economist” wrote about the deindustrialization of the African continent. Comparing our continent with...
So much ado about Cecil the Lion; why is nothing said about the Marikana massacre?
July 30 2015 – There is so much ado about the killing of a Cecil in Zimbabwe that it makes you wonder. No, it’s not...