international - Africa

A Thousand Hills

Martyn Drakard | 26 July 2008 | comment 2

The leadership of a remarkable soldier-president could turn the ruins of Rwanda into the Singapore of Africa.

The Wizard of the Nile

Martyn Drakard | 18 June 2008 | comment 7

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

Mayhem in South Africa’s townships

Martyn Drakard | 06 June 2008 | comment 4

The roots of South Africa’s problems are partially ethnic, but more emphatically economic.

Hope for a troubled land

Nwachukwu Egbunike | 18 April 2008 | comment 9

Educated young African professionals ought to fight against corruption and incompetence at home, rather than look overseas for streets paved with gold.

Obama is Kenyan

Eric Kathenya | 28 March 2008 | comment 6

In a country starved of political leadership Obama fills a yawning gap in the collective psyche.

The Past in the Present

Nwachukwu Egbunike | 12 March 2008 | comment 8

African traditional life is being steamrollered by globalisation. How should they react?

In the Congo, you can’t survive without a family

Gaston Asitaki | 08 March 2008 | comment 6

The African family can teach the West a few lessons, says a Congolese lawyer. 

A realistic strategy for fighting African AIDS

Matthew Hanley | 29 February 2008 | comment 39

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

No place for Arabia in England’s pleasant land

Adebowale Oriku | 22 February 2008 | comment 13

The verbal stoning meted out to the Archbishop of Canterbury is understandable, says a Nigerian expatriate.

General knowledge

Eric Kathenya | 15 February 2008 | comment 11

No, not a military strongman, but the stuff of an intellectual coup for the students in a regional African quiz show.

The curse of tribal rivalry

Martyn Drakard | 02 February 2008 | comment 5

Despite horrific stories from Kenya, there are signs of hope for harmony amongst ethnic groups.

Kenya: test case for African democracy

Martyn Drakard | 11 January 2008 | comment 13

Will Mwai Kibaki and his supporters allow their country's achievements to go up in smoke?

Crying poor

Martyn Drakard | 02 November 2007

Poverty is big business for aid agencies in Africa.

Award for pioneer African novelist

Martyn Drakard | 05 October 2007 | comment 4

Africa is no longer a literary backwater, as the acclaim for Nigeria's Chinua Achebe shows.

Where political incorrectness reigns

Martyn Drakard | 14 September 2007 | comment 15

The Ugandan government is defying the West with its intransigence over gay rights.

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