Even though UN’s top officials themselves privately acknowledge their organization’s imperviousness to creative thinking, the stakes in Africa are too great to defer to UN sclerosis. Rapid state failure makes the status quo untenable.

“We are a society psychologically beholden to the western gaze. If white people say we are leaders, then that is definitely what we consider ourselves to be.”

If the growing escalation of the heinous activities of Boko Haram and other Islamic fundamentalists is anything to go by, then the government’s counterterrorism approaches have performed below their expectations

If it is upgraded to accommodate an electric railway, the Tanga-Hoima corridor wouldn’t just be a Uganda-Tanzania affair, but an East African asset

Starting by diagnosing the causes of conflict rather than immediately imagining a solution based on standard templates, would provide a firm foundation for arriving at fitting strategies for ending the perennial upheavals and bloodletting and the misery they cause and perpetuate

The weakness of our institutions is only regarded as a problem by those who aren’t immediate beneficiaries thereof, resulting in a clamour for inclusion, rather than change

If our problems are access to healthcare, education, women empowerment, infrastructural development, poverty et cetera, a good and smooth election is not the response

For any substantive changes to happen in the way Tanzania engages with the EAC, the country must resolve the differences from within in terms of its constitutional, legal and policy foci

It should be understood as colonial to insist that the peasants in the African countryside were poor and thus needed to live their lands and go to labour in industrial parks for their food and sustenance

Dr. Nyang, was an African to the core. He was an intellectual in his own right, one from the great tradition of the griots of the Gambia. His Africanness never left him. Whenever he saw young Africans, Dr Nyang was eager to inspire.