By PEPE ESCOBAR Think of the new Libya as the latest spectacular chapter in the Disaster Capitalism series. Instead of weapons of mass ...

By NWAKANMA CHIKA How does the bombing of a church in northern Nigeria by some illiterate Boko Haram suicide bomber relate to the ...

Africa locks itself out of a potential $1 trillion continental business by refusing to trade with itself. By SEGUN ORUAME Open borders and ...

By Segun Ohimeh Oruame How do you run ambitious development plans in a state that is mostly under-infrastructure, largely agrarian; and whose populations ...

Three recent African trials support male circumcision for reducing the risk of contracting HIV in heterosexual men. After including new data from these ...

The year was 1996. Daddy had lost his job several years earlier, and had been unable to secure another one ever since. Mom ...

Many in the media have severally commented on the recent Jos mayhem, but in the spirit of political correctness virtually none has broached ...

  CHINWEOKE OBI writes that Gombe offers a paradox of how government policy on poverty  alleviation runs outside the circle of the people’s ...

Nigeria’s public sector education is notorious for the incessant labour strikes by poorly paid teachers, the parlous infrastructure that makes learning a curse, ...

The 2011 elections have shown that the PDP still remains the only national party in terms of its wider spread and acceptance, for ...

Zimbabwe’s long time ruler President Robert Mugabe has built a reputation as an astute and cunning politician. For close to three decades he ...

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has been re-elected as the Chairman of the ruling party, the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) to serve for four ...