The rigging mechanism was set up long before the day of election. MDC was strategically advertised as a conspirator in league with the ‘enemy’

July marked the 15th anniversary of the death of Moshood Abiola in the presence of American diplomats and secret service agents. Lots of unanswered questions about his death remain

57 years ago women took to the streets challenging national and gender oppression. Today, South Africa requires a transformation of capitalist property relations which inherently oppress, exploit and abuse women. At the same time more women must be brought into the revolutionary movement as organizers and leaders

The Obama administration is fighting a federal court ruling that would free the remainder of the mostly Black prison inmates convicted under now-defunct, viciously racially disparate crack cocaine laws. The First Black President and his Black attorney general are determined to keep 5,000 people in jail who have no reason to be there

Bradley Manning is a US political prisoner, not the first or the last. The Obama administration is just as craven, vicious, and fearful of the truth and the American people as any of its predecessors

Despite signing the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the continued violation of the human rights of homosexuals means that Nigeria’s government cannot be relied upon to protect the inalienable rights of all its citizens

In the absence of clear regulation, the practice of surrogacy in Kenya is growing as an unsupervised industry with no law to fall back on if anything goes wrong during the treatment

When will Kenya withdraw its troops from Somalia? The highly publicized military intervention in pursuit of Al Shabaab is no longer a subject of public discussion. Kenya seems to be pushing a hidden agenda in south Somalia and its military presence there is beginning to look like an occupation

Harold Wilson, then British prime minister, actively supported the genocide in Igboland during the Biafra War. Britain owes the Igbo an apology for this complicity

The tenacity of womyn like Mekatilili of Kenya and Lelia Gonzalez of Brazil should inspire others to engage in radical struggles for total liberation from all forms of oppression

The raft of proposed amendments to the electional law is only meant to benefit INEC, but is likely to create massive complications in the conduct of polls in Nigeria

Excluding gays and lesbians from marriage amounts to denial of equal protection of the law and unfair discrimination by the state against them because of their sexual orientation

Race ought to be addressed centrally in any analysis and prescriptions on fighting capitalism. If the struggle against white supremacy and patriarchy is not given a prominent role in the resistance to capital, it is likely to breed cynicism and detachment from movements such as Occupy

The security of Africa's development is under threat if the rising phenomenon of jobless growth and high youth unemployment is not addressed

The history of inaction and failure of the AU to implement its own commitments and solutions poses real doubts about the credibility of its institutions after 50 years of existence

Greed is a national trait in Kenya, not just among the leaders but in all the citizens. Everyone wants to get material success no matter what the methods. It the fruit of a seed sown at independence

A two-party arrangement may be the panacea to the sectional politics Nigerians have long been attuned to

If the fragilities and dangers within Africa's growth are not recognised, 'Africa Rising' stereotypes may prove as hopeless as their predecessors

In January 1967 historic talks were held in regards to the on-going civil war in Nigeria. Revisiting the talks via the audio transcripts of the deliberations reveals the success the leader of the Ibos, Colonel Odumegwu-Ojukwu had in persuading the rest of the participants to accept an extensively decentralised structural solution to Nigeria’s crisis

On 8 July 8 2013 several individuals wrote to the President of South Sudan, expressing unease at disturbing developments in the country, particularly the impunity of the armed forces and growing corruption that portend future instability for the country. An immediate commitment to rectifying these problems is called for