Africa

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The Wizard of the Nile

Martyn Drakard | 18 June 2008 |

tags: Africa, history

Almost forgotten in the West is a ghastly war in northern Uganda in which thousands have been murdered, raped and enslaved. 

A realistic strategy for fighting African AIDS

Matthew Hanley | 29 February 2008 |

tags: Africa, AIDS, utilitarianism

Discussion of the African AIDS crisis is riddled with ideology. The evidence shows that utilitarian HIV prevention guidelines are failing. 

The unkindest cut

Carolyn Moynihan | 29 January 2008 |

tags: abortion, Africa, female circumcision, feminism

Female circumcision is outrageous, but then so is much of what we do to women in the West.

AIDS: what’s happening in Uganda?

Angelina Kakooza-Mwesige | 19 April 2006 |

tags: Africa, AIDS

Ugandan paediatrician Angelina Kakooza-Mwesige faces the scourge of AIDS every day in her young patients. In this interview she suggests that the solution is not more condoms.

Development requires virtue, says Nobel Peace Prize winner

Alistair Gould | 12 November 2005 |

tags: Africa, Nobel Peace Prize, Wangari Maathai

MercatorNet interviews 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, founder of Kenya's Green Belt Movement.

Fighting AIDS by bolstering African families

Margaret Ogola | 26 August 2005 |

tags: Africa, AIDS, Kenya

Strengthening the family is the answer to many of Africa's ailments, says Kenyan paediatrician, mother and award-winning novelist Margaret Ogola.

Colouring peace green

Eugene Ohu | 03 June 2005 |

tags: Africa, Nobel Peace Prize, Wangari Maathai, women

Our Nigerian correspondent reflects on the meaning of the Nobel Peace prize awarded to environmental activist Wangari Maathai.

A quiet breakthrough in AIDS policy

Michael Cook | 03 December 2004 |

tags: Africa, AIDS, Uganda

It was hard to miss World AIDS Day this week. If you weren't approached to buy a red ribbon on the sidewalk, the plight of AIDS sufferers around the globe leapt out of television screens and newspapers.

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