I finally visited India recently. It was an opportunity to face the reality of the two India-related obsessions of my youth. One of the obsessions of my teenage years was Indian movies. These were days when these films were in Hindi with no subtitles. It is like the way many Muslims can read the Quran [...]

If ever a meeting place deserves its name and its clients it is The Pan Afric Hotel in Nairobi. It was recently the venue for a very important Pan African conference organised by the Pan African NGO, ACCORD, ably anchored by Awino Oketch and co-sponsored by other partners: The Pan African Conference on Ending Impunity [...]

Early in July I attended the first Congress of the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLGA) in Accra, Ghana. It is the Africa arm of the Global UCLG. It is a forum for Elected Mayors of Cities and Municipalities, Chairpersons of district and Local Councils and other elected leaders at Local level. They [...]

I was born and brought up in a predominantly Muslim community, but the best schools around were fee-paying Christian missionary schools. Our parents were ambitious enough for us that they had no hesitation about paying (government schools were free) to get us into these schools. They were strong enough in their faith to trust that [...]

There has been a lot of opprobrium directed at African leaders for lacking the political will to check (if not end) the tragic lives of Zimbabweans due to the misrule of the aged ex-freedom fighter, President Robert Mugabe. However I do have a different take on the outcome of the recent Sharm El Sheikh Summit [...]