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Chinese Companies And The Abuse Of Zambian Workers0
- Social Justice, Zambia
- 10.10.2018.
At the time when the talk in the country is on the debt the Zambian government owes China, something more serious about the Chinese is being ignored: hundreds of Chinese companies operating in the country are paying their workers meagre salaries and conditions of service are very worrying. Workers in factories are not provided with
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#FIFA18: Accessible and Affordable ICT’s, Africa’s Generational Battle0
- Access to Information, Africa, Democracy, Human Rights, Internet
- 08.10.2018.
In the Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon said “each generation must discover its mission, fulfil it, or betray it, in relative opacity.” For Africa and its people, for whom Fanon spoke for, this call to action is more daunting than it sounds, specifically for two specific reasons. First, general socioeconomic problems on the continent can hardly
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Women and Politics in Uganda – Rhoda Kalema’s Story0
Rhoda Kalema is a story of commitment, courage, character and triumph as a girl, a woman, mother, and grandmother to many young women in Uganda. Rhoda is quick to mention that this story not about her but that she is just a branch that came out of people that mentored her over the years. Born in
READ MOREZimbabwe’s Next Five Years0
Political perspectives in Zimbabwe, at least after the recent 2018 general election, have tended to have a sense of immediacy and urgency. Spurred on by the fundamentally zero-sum power games that our national elections are or their highly polarized nature, we tend to not look beyond our noses as to what it all means. And
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Who Can Challenge Macky Sall?0
In 2012, civil society opposition parties’ demonstrations enabled Macky Sall to be elected President of the Republic. The leader of Coalition Macky 2012 had won 26.19% of the vote in the first round, followed respectively by: Moustapha Niasse 13.20% Ousmane Tanor Dieng 11.30% Idrissa Seck 7.86% Cheikh Bamba Dieye 1.93% Ibrahima Fall 1.81% The combined backing
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Will the Election of 7 October Mark the Division of Cameroon?0
Two years after it began, the so-called “Anglophone crisis” continues to rage in the North-West and South-West regions (collectively known as “NoSo”) of Cameroon. Over time, the situation has deteriorated to the point of becoming an armed conflict pitting the Cameroonian Armed Forces against the Ambazonian Defence Forces. Continuing into 2018, an election year, without
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Angel Investors and Demons of Venture Capital0
- Economy, Governance, Social Justice, Tanzania
- 21.09.2018.
“Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est La Même Chose” – Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr The old Swahili adage, “vijana ni taifa la kesho” (youth are the nation of tomorrow), seems outdated. Even the use of the phrase, “Today’s Youth, Tomorrow’s Future”, is apparently waning. What appears to be trending now is Africa as “the young continent.” It is thus not surprising that
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Bobi Wine Arrest Unites Ugandans in Quest for Justice0
Photo Credit : Nicolas Bamulenzaki Uganda has been through a rough couple of weeks. Violence erupted on August 11 2018 in a by election in Arua, which is in the north western part of the country. It is also the day, I got a motorbike accident. I remember being in hospital getting stitched
READ MOREMnangagwa’s ‘2nd Republic’ and the Pursuance of Neoliberal Economics0
The confirmation of Emmerson Mnangagwa by Zimbabwe’s highest court as president sealed the dispute on Zimbabwe’s future leader to carry the hopes of a nation yearning for a new trajectory. The disputed election resulted in the MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa filing a constitutional court application challenging the credibility of the election results. The case
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When a picture is worth a thousand words: Xi Jinping meets ‘Africa’0
- Africa, Development
- 05.09.2018.
A picture is worth a thousand words, is the phraseology popularised in 1927, by advertising executive Fred R. Barnard. He coined the phrase, to refer to the notion that a complex idea can be conveyed with just a single still image or that an image of a subject conveys its meaning or essence more effectively
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