TAJU: IT IS DIFFICULT, DON’T AGONISE BY Y.Z YAU Three weeks to an official visit by the staff of the United Nations Millennium Campaign – Africa Office in Nairobi to Nigeria, Dr. Tajudeen Abdulraheem as Deputy Director of the Millennium Campaign – Africa Office, had, working with a number of civil society organisations, arranged a [...]

The irony of Africa being a very rich continent but Africans being some of the poorest peoples in the world is no longer lost on anyone. While we can argue about the historical , structural, attitudinal, personal and institutional causes of this state of affairs, the fact remains that the majority of our peoples remain [...]

I was in Khartoum a couple of weeks ago. A sweltering heat of over 40 degrees welcomed us as we descended the gangway from a matatu-like Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi. I was not in town to help the ICC arrest Sudan’s indicted President, General Hassan Al Bashir, who travels to carefully selected friendly countries [...]

It is difficult to persuade Kenyans, exasperated by the shenanigans of their Grand Coalition (which many regard as the Grand CONFUSION) government that there is anything good in electoral democracy. However the recent rescue of the country from political implosion by the speaker of the national parliament has also rescued parliamentary democracy. Kenyans are much [...]

If you read the Kenyan and Ugandan papers or monitor other regional media, it would be understandable if you conclude that both countries are about to go to war over a disputed island that is about half the size of a standard football field, with not much room for supporters to watch if there was [...]