When power feels its position is under threat, then all conventions of trust may be abandoned, with the danger of breaking down the social contract between...
The broad scope of modern Judaeo-Christian thought, rooted in the Enlightenment, has reached the end of whatever useful life it had. It is time for African...
As Christians fall out over gay rights, the Ugandan state, built on martyrs resisting alleged homosexuality, has some soul-searching to do.
The question of how property should be shared out between a divorcing couple remains vexed. We need laws and rulings that reflect our realities, not somebody...
Kiswahili has not meant the same thing to all Africans everywhere at all times and so the ultimate desired goal behind the drive to adopt it...
Human rights are not “politics” as such; they are what comes up as an issue once politics fails. To avoid, or even fix a human rights...
The EPRDF coalition that ousted Colonel Mengistu's Derg regime had one job: to loosen the suffocating bonds through which the empire-state had had been created. It...
With William Ruto’s ascension to the presidency, we now have a string of governments in the East African region that hold no genuine or valuable ideological...
Faced all at once with political, social, economic and constitutional crises, the English ruling class is invoking the nostalgia of empire in a desperate bid to...
The purpose of the mass and civilizational migrations of Western Europe was the same as now: not simply to move from one point to another, but...
Unless the leaders make good on their statements about using the greater scale of the economic bloc to demand better terms of trade globally, the expanded...
Alternatively, there could emerge a leadership that seeks to respect each ambition, and find a happy medium between them, by first addressing the question: what are...