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I recently argued that Africa’s key challenge is that it has outsourced the right to self-define. Although I focused on political and economic management, this
A lot has been written and said about the causes of the perennial xenophobic attacks in South Africa. Most analysts blame inequality, unemployment and
As a society, we are distant in empathy around rape and teenage pregnancy. We are unable to translate the individual outrage that overcomes us when
So South Africans are at it again. It is more than a week now since attacks on immigrants from elsewhere in Africa started again. As
What is freedom? It depends. In Southern Africa settler colonialism and Apartheid defined freedom in terms of land. The very definition of “settler” placed
Normally when all that white people have to say about a black man, especially a black leader, is that he is ‘smart’, ‘clever’ or ‘a
Under the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, what does the term ‘sustainable’ really imply for sub-Saharan Africa and how can that term be practically applied in
It was the fart heard around the world. The Speaker of a regional Assembly in Kenya had to suspend proceeding because, wait for it, one
A genuine looking video circulated on social media during the just concluded Congolese elections, depicting a surreal electoral scene in Butembo, a small town of
A public lecture by Lonzen Rugira, PhD. Ambassador Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center Howard University Washington DC August 29, 2019 3:00-4:30pm I wish to acknowledge
I recently argued that Africa’s key challenge is that it has outsourced the right to self-define. Although I focused on political and economic management, this
A lot has been written and said about the causes of the perennial xenophobic attacks in South Africa. Most analysts blame inequality, unemployment and
As a society, we are distant in empathy around rape and teenage pregnancy. We are unable to translate the individual outrage that overcomes us when
So South Africans are at it again. It is more than a week now since attacks on immigrants from elsewhere in Africa started again. As
What is freedom? It depends. In Southern Africa settler colonialism and Apartheid defined freedom in terms of land. The very definition of “settler” placed
Normally when all that white people have to say about a black man, especially a black leader, is that he is ‘smart’, ‘clever’ or ‘a
Under the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, what does the term ‘sustainable’ really imply for sub-Saharan Africa and how can that term be practically applied in
It was the fart heard around the world. The Speaker of a regional Assembly in Kenya had to suspend proceeding because, wait for it, one
A genuine looking video circulated on social media during the just concluded Congolese elections, depicting a surreal electoral scene in Butembo, a small town of
A public lecture by Lonzen Rugira, PhD. Ambassador Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center Howard University Washington DC August 29, 2019 3:00-4:30pm I wish to acknowledge
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Part of the problem facing Africa is that the agency to articulate the trials and tribulations of Africans has for long been usurped by foreigners. As a principle, everyone should get involved in debates on Africa, of course. However, rather than Read more