New Year's Eve is just around the corner. Bars and nightclubs throughout Africa will be getting ready for the annual onslaught of merry folk. Even if you're visiting countries that don't follow the Gregorian calendar, you'll still find a party or two to enjoy. That's because every country in Africa... [view entry]

Adeola Aderounmu When I was a little boy I was told that lawyers are liars. It was a joke but it stuck. I was determined never to become a lawyer but I do admire them. Almost everything institution in Nigeria is corrupt and upside down. All our democratic institutions that... [view entry]

Sometimes it is difficult to decide on whether to get angry at the impunity of our so called leaders or sad at their ignorance. It is even more astonishing when this impunity or ignorance is displayed with so much arrogance. But that is our country. Thisday reports that OUR House... [view entry]

The Swiss Football Association announced this week that it will be based in Vanderbijlpark’s Emerald Resort and Casino over the World Cup period next year. Along with the team, an entire entourage of media are expected to make the property its home base. The Swiss Team will have exclusive occupancy... [view entry]

Eritrea is finally getting some of the attention it deserves for its destructive role it has played in the Horn of Africa - funding and arming an al-Qaeda linked group that has been bringing chaos to nearby Somalia, as well as recruiting Somali Americans to its jihad.  Earlier this year,... [view entry]

Few recent events have highlighted the racial fault lines in South African society more starkly than the recent death of Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. While many South Africans (mostly white) have welcomed the death of the late Minister, pointing to her disastrous management of the HIV/AIDS crisis and the untold suffering and... [view entry]

Women's rights advocates have made policy-setting inroads into many of the spaces that affect women's lives - governments, schools, religious organizations, health care systems and economies. But what about the virtual space of the internet? read more [view entry]

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has granted the 12 members of the Eritrean national soccer team asylum. They were granted passes to allow them stay in Kenya as UNHCR works on their cases. The players were interviewed by the Ministry of Immigration officials on Wednesday night and later... [view entry]

Or should I say the Uganda Christian churches are starting on a counter offensive to calls that the bill is un-Christian. I like the way they do it. First, they choose Ssempa as the spokesperson. Big mistake. Very....! Watch this space. And then, they play the old, old, old card... [view entry]

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