It takes great amounts of courage to make artistic works premised on the contentious and sensitive issue of homosexuality. A movie about two women in love called 'Rafiki' has stirred a hornet's nest in Kenya - where it has been banned - but has been received
Haile Selassie, born Ras Tafari Makkonen, was the regent of Ethiopia from 1916 to 1930 and emperor from 1930 to 1974. He was the last emperor of Ethiopia, having traced his lineage to Emperor Lebna Dengel via his Shewan Amhara royal ancestors as a great-grandson of king Sahle Selassie. That
In Africa, there are certain traits that have become seriously institutionalized and normalized, which should not be the case. Conflict is an everyday things in some African countries and a new study has revealed that at the heart of conflict lies an inherent disrespect for term limits which should be
When you have been fed a certain narrative for the better part of your life, be always prepared to hear the other story. Because really, on Earth, it is difficult to find something that is perfect in its entirety. And so it has been the case with the revered Mahatma
In a conservative society like Zimbabwe, trying to come up with new ways of regulating the production and use of marijuana was met with mixed feelings, often times the legislators advocating for it being openly mocked. A new position however has been effected, and marijuana production in Zimbabwe has been
Politics is an interesting game, and yet, it is a debilitating one. Its ramifications permeate through every aspect of life. Politics simply affects everything in life. Now this is the situation in every country, but with Zimbabwe, the repercussions of wrong political moves were just disastrous beyond what words can
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari is always on the headlines. However, it appears his comments making the headlines at the moment is a bad song on a sad day as Nigerians are not taking the President's statements lightly. The president, while delivering a keynote
To say that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman –MBS- is blunt is truly an understatement through and through. During his recent visit to the US he gave the reputable magazine The Atlantic an interview in which he did not mince his words and spoke candidly on a host of
There is a popular African proverb that says “one who is under the rain does not die thirst”; and this is interpreted mean ‘scarcity is somewhat impossible in the face of the surpluses. Sadly, the food, agricultural and poverty paradox in our world today makes rubbish of this age long
In recent years, Rwanda has turned out to be that country which is very organized in many facets of life. And well, investors love Rwanda anyway. A California-based robotics firm called Zipline Inc which delivers blood supplies in Rwanda has developed a faster commercial drone. The firm revealed the new
The reports of bloody clashes between Fulani herdsmen from the North and farmers from the Middle-Belt and South-East of Nigeria continues to raise panic, prompting calls from certain quarters on the Federal Government to formally declare the Fulani herdsmen terrorists. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) – an umbrella body in
I write this script with a heavy heart after watching pictures and videos of fellow Africans being humiliated, abused, murdered and auctioned as slaves in Libya. There has been a traumatic outrage across the globe, especially Africans in the Diaspora. It seems to me that the issue has been tactfully
Conspiracists have claimed the world is really run by one family: the Rothschilds. The claims go as far as alledging that this family owns Botswana and Zimbabwe. It may sound ludicrous but every year Forbes releases its richest people list, there are people questioning why the family is not included.
Medical procedures are expected to be flawless and to be very precise. In a bizarre incident in Kenya, four medics cut open the skull of the wrong patient at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi. The brain surgery was scheduled to be performed on a patient who had a blood
It is nearly more than two decades since Somaliland got its independence from the rest of Somalia in 1991. Somaliland followed path to political, social and economic recovery and further enhanced institutional re-arrangement which marks the start of its democratization process until today. With abundance of minerals and other forms
Ethiopia has always been a country teetering on the brink of a massive breakdown of human rights and free expression. The country has been teeming with tension that is very delicate in ways frightening. A bit of despondency has crept all the while, with the state responding with the typical
