Museveni gave Kiprotich an $.80, 483 largess & called him a real member of his NRM political party! What would Uganda do if it won 46 gold olympic medals? If Uganda devoted as much attention & money as they are devoting to Kiprotich's gold medal win, it would mitigate the country's dilapidated infrastructure, education & health care system. The USA had 46 gold medals and yet the USA government has not convened a special session of congress in honor of their gold medalists! This does not mean the USA cares less for its gold medalists, their fiscal spending priorities are just different. Kiprotich deserves a special recognition but what he is getting so far is way overboard! What if Mr. Kiprotich was allowed to study sports medicine, physical education or nutrition with free room ...

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Africa at the Crossroads Technology and global political pressure have changed the landscape of African activism and youth-led change are on the rise. Joining Insight to discuss how Africa's youth is changing the continent is former US ambassador to Nigeria, Robin Renee Sanders. She is delivering the keynote address Friday at Sacramento State University's 21st Annual African/African Diaspora Conference: Africa at the Crossroads: Revolution, Democracy, Youth empowerment, Social media and Non-Violence.

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Se-ve-n! For those of you who are confused by that greeting, you have some reading to do below. Head back this way when you are done. ... Right, now that we are all at the same place, lets have a little read here. What I can guarantee from this article is warm smile once you [...]

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Updated: Aug. 17, 2012 at 7:40 a.m. EST South African police opened fire on a crowd of striking miners on Thursday, killing 34 people and leaving a field strewn with bodies in a massacre that instantly revived memories of the brutality of apartheid. At a press conference Friday, the South African Police Service claimed its officers [...]

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Lagos, Nigeria, August 16, 2012--Unidentified gunmen today stormed a private television station owned by Gabon's main opposition leader and burned down its transmitters, according to local journalists and news reports. It was the second armed attack on the broadcaster since 2009....

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In five countries around the world, consensual sex between same-gender partners is considered a crime punishable by death. In 76 countries, it is a crime with a prison sentence if convicted. And for millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals, verbal abuse and physical violence -- ranging from psychological torture to beatings and murder -- are the status quo and often go unprosecuted by local and national authorities in many countries. These continued human rights abuses are unacceptable, and the Obama Administration is committed to combating them, but we also need your help.

Last December, the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton launched the Global Equality Fund -- a new initiative to defend the human rights of LGBT persons in communities around ...

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FEW independent journalists have achieved quite so much by sheer drive, wit and charm as the South Africa-based writer, Heidi Holland, whose tragically early death was reported on August 11th. South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), and its main opposition, the Democratic Alliance, and many prominent South Africans issued statements lamenting her passing. A more passionate outpouring of sadness spread among the many writers, journalists, aid workers, academics, think-tankers, activists and others who had stayed at the lively guesthouse, in Melville, Johannesburg, that Heidi owned and ran.

The author of the best biography to date of Zimbabwe's despotic leader, "Dinner with Mugabe", Heidi achieved the rare feat in 2007 of interviewing Robert Mugabe at length in State ...

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These ten women in African business have made their mark on business and society.

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And as he tiptoes in, acutely aware of the echo of his own footsteps, he asks: "hello, hello, hello, is there anybody out there?"

Greetings non facebookers, assuming any of you are still here, bothering to read this blog. I cannot believe it has been seven months since I posted anything here. Well, actually I can believe it, because that's how long I've been working on my 10th novel, and a couple of new non fiction books.

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Heavily-armed state forces stopped students in Swaziland from marching on government to protest about the non-payment of tuition fees and scholarships.

More than 100 students today (16 August 2012) gathered at the University of Swaziland campus in the kingdom's capital Mbabane, but they were blocked from leaving for about four hours by police and prison wardens. Eventually the students gave up and went home.

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Heavily-armed state forces stopped students in Swaziland from marching on government to protest about the non-payment of tuition fees and scholarships.

More than 100 students today (16 August 2012) gathered at the University of Swaziland campus in the kingdom's capital Mbabane, but they were blocked from leaving for about four hours by police and prison wardens. Eventually the students gave up and went home.

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The DRC is a complicated country. The complicated mineral wealth doesn't help. It also presents a development dilemma when it comes to mining. Which is better for the people of the country: artisanal mining which keeps the money (mostly) in the hands of the BoP and has a very low barrier to entry or high-tech, capital-heavy mining that may create jobs but will be owned by (let's face it,

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