Journalist, Editor and authoritative commentator on African Affairs. Radio talk-show host and prominent guest speaker.
The excuse of the uniformed: “We did not know “ has eroded as technology makes the facts inescapable. Surely in this age of social media that gossamer thin excuse has disappeared. Some Germans might have claimed they did not know about the Nazi genocide until the Nuremberg trials painfully mapped
Western movie buffs cannot agree on who first warned combatants not to bring a knife to a gunfight. The message: never go into a fight under weaponized ,is indisputable. Many of Joe Biden’s supporters fear he will be doing this when he meets Donald Trump in the Presidential campaign debates
In these deadly serious days of the pandemic and the U.S. presidential poll, one has to search for the laughs. Happily Tik Tok is providing mine. Yes, yes, I know it is designed for younger consumers. But it is not the content that provides my chortle. It is the belief
Watching Donald Trump accept the Republican Party’s nomination for November’s United States Presidential election gives one a chilly sense of deja vu. His line is straight out of the National Party’s apartheid era playbook in South Africa. He tells potential supporters that whatever they might think of him the alternative
Not one but two pieces of excellent medical news out of Africa this week. The Democratic Republic of Congo announces that the world’s worst measles outbreak which killed more than 7000 children under five-years-old is over. The announcement by Health Minister Eteni Londondo still requires authentication by the World Health
Humanitarians Bill Gates and Aliko Dangote are today celebrating with Presidents from the World Health Organisation’s Africa Region the eradication of wild poliomyelitis. There should 47 Presidents involved in the virtual fest. But Mali’s Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta who was deposed in a military coup last week, remains in detention. The
There has been universal condemnation of the mutiny that became a coup in Mali – as there should be. From the United Nations Security Council down to the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States neighbouring Mali there are demands for a return to constitutionality. The putschists insistence that they
Mali, where President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has been unseated in an apparent military coup, has always been a country posing more questions than offering solutions. This dates backs to precolonial times when it was part of the Malian, Ghanaian and Songhai empires of West Africa, Historically, the landlocked, kidney-shaped country
The pressure was on democratic South Africa even before President Nelson Mandela stood in the amphitheater and said “never again” to apartheid. The African countries that helped liberate South Africa have never stopped pushing it to muscularly help enforce and keep peace on the continent. That expectation is born of
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