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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS)

As I begin to write this response, I’ll admit that I have no idea how I will manage to remain respectful and conduct myself in a way that will engage rather than enrage the people who will take time to read my thoughts. I wil...

by Ruth Nyambura

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No go Zone: Could Retirement Armnesty Law inspire Presidential Retirement in Africa?

In the wake of the popular walk to work protests that affected Kampala until a few months ago, one thing stood out: the opposition politicians and their faithfuls wanted to send a message to the regime of President Museveni an...

by Ivan Atuyambe

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Sticking by a Friend, Swaziland and Taiwan Relations

While the rest of Africa is running helter-skelter in excitement because of investment mainland China is pouring into Africa, Swaziland has continued to stick to her guns, and has continued to be a faithful ally to Taiwan. In f...

by Mark Mngomezulu

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Food, Blankets and Shelter—Only Basic Needs?

Let’s just go ahead and state the obvious—it is much easier for an NGO to market basic needs programs than it is to market programs directed at resolving more complicated issues. Because the more complicated issues (for...

by Tiffany Brittingham

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Focus on Africa: Kenya’s Education Proposition

After intense bargaining, Kenya’s treasury has finally submitted to salary increase demands, successfully bringing to an end the month long industrial action by teachers from the nation’s public schools. As the teachers lau...

by George Gachara

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“Development’s Cinderella”

Every woman I know attests to the fact that they absolutely hate the time of the month when they receive their period. It does not matter whether you have access to sanitary pads and tampons, a hot water bottle and pain killers...

by Ruth Nyambura

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This is not Islam

We in the West can all too easily believe that every Muslim wishes to kill in the name of religion. The protests that have swept across the Muslim world over the past several days are nothing to do with the inflammatory anti-Is...

by Gareth Lewis

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The ‘Innocence of Muslims’ is a trap we must overcome

This week, anger has turned flags into flames and spilt blood in the streets of Sanaa, Benghazi, Cairo and Tehran over a cheap, cowardly trap, set with the one aim of inspiring violence. And it has. But now it is time that we s...

by Chris Wright

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Doing the Democratic Math

When the apartheid state security apparatus unleashed its violence in Sharpeville in 1960, sixty-nine people were left dead. It was a traumatising episode in the struggle for black rights and racial equality in South Africa. Ye...

by Mark Mngomezulu

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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS)

No go Zone: Could Retirement Armnesty Law inspire Presidential Retirement in Africa?

Sticking by a Friend, Swaziland and Taiwan Relations

Food, Blankets and Shelter—Only Basic Needs?

Focus on Africa: Kenya’s Education Proposition

“Development’s Cinderella”

This is not Islam

The ‘Innocence of Muslims’ is a trap we must overcome

Doing the Democratic Math

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