Most African independence and liberation movements and their leaders have blamed outsiders for their ill-advised decisions, failures and corruption.
There are many beliefs, some ancient or others recently invented, held to be true by large numbers of black communities or groups, about others, the causes of their ...
The false belief in strong ?muthi? means that many cynical African leaders such as Zuma can get away with corruption, mismanagement and abuse.
Harmful African cultural, traditional and customs across the continent undermines individual human rights, dignity and freedom. But it also stunts the overall development ...
Togo’s long-time ruler Faure Gnassingbe, who has run the country with an iron-fist for 15 years, retained his grip on power, when he won the most obviously one-sided ...
South Africans at almost every level: individual, community and public - generally feel threatened.
South Africa is an angry nation. Destructive, volcanic and mean-spirited anger has become legitimised. Chronic mass societal anger undermines democracy, social cohesion ...
South Africa needs an integrated national youth empowerment strategy, which provides skills, job opportunities and life purpose to millions of excluded youth. South ...
The staggeringly irresponsible calls by ANC leaders, many who lack any market, business or public credibility, for the South African Reserve Bank, the central bank, ...
More successful developing countries are invariably those where Cabinets are smaller, leaders live modestly and behave humbly. Poor developing and African countries, ...
Newly installed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will have to speedily restore the rule of law as one of the first priorities to lift growth, spur business ...
As South Africa goes through its most competitive election campaign ahead of the 8 May 2019 election, since the first all-race democratic elections in 1994, the ...
As South Africa celebrate 25 years of freedom, we may on paper have a democratic constitution, democratic institutions and stage regular elections, but society has ...
Slavery, ethnic discrimination and suppression of basic freedoms persists in Mauritania. ...
Sudan’s brave women have been the pillar of the Arab Spring style popular protests which successfully ended Omar al-Bashir’s 30 year iron-fisted rule. Women should ...
Attacks on freedom of expression on the Internet and the associated social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp, in South Africa are now increasingly ...
South Africa’s public discourse, debate and dialogue, called the “public sphere”, are increasingly being corrupted, with public speech by many prominent figures ...
Radicals only allow like-minded debaters to air their views, silencing moderate opponents.
Violent religious extremism, whether Islam or Christian by organised groups have exploded to alarmingly new levels across the African continent. Africa is seeing ...
Mass protests, initially led by youth, by then embraced by citizens of all ages, classes and ideologies, successfully forced 82-year-old Algerian President Abdelaziz ...
Freedom of expression should be defended at all costs because democracy, development and peace are not possible without this fundamental right.
Photo credit: ReutersFelix Tshisekedi, who the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Constitutional Court declared winner of the country’s disputed 30 December 2018 elections, ...
Political parties must declare their private funders that pay their deposits to register as parties, as well as private funders of parties already in parliament ...
The impact of racism on black children in schools results in trauma, health problems and learning difficulties for the victims. A report in the US which looked at ...
Technology makes it possible for teachers in a privileged school to beam out the same lessons to a school in a poor community, says the writer.