The labour roots of the editorial minders of the Abuja based The Worker positions the periodical in terms of the best possible coverage of the recent 40th anniversary of Nigeria’s central la... Read more
Although she is a graduate, she is first and foremost a farmer. She has her land which she bought ever before she got into activism. As a farmer, she grows cashew nuts and pineapple. But thi... Read more
Six persons have been reported killed at a Caucus Meeting of Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, (APC) at Otukpo in Benue State, central Nigeria. It is still not cle... Read more
It has been a week in which protests by the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, aka Shiites; dramatic disappearance of the Mace at the Senate and row over presidential rhetoric on the youths occupi... Read more
For those who might not have heard the story of the Hummingbird as created and popularised by the late Prof Wangari Mathai, here is one version of it as expertly told at the just concluded ‘... Read more
By Yusuf Bangura* The balance of power in Sierra Leone’s parliament during the next five years suggests that crafting a stable majority for governance is likely to be tricky, if not messy. T... Read more
There is nothing new in Prof Deborah Brautigam dismissing American perception of China as a bogeyman in Africa. The John Hopkins University don has said that too many times, most specificall... Read more
Arusha, the Tanzanian city where the late President Julius Nyerere declared ‘Ujamaa’, (his cultural Socialism) 51 years ago is again the venue of a possible new declaration about getting the... Read more
By Mweha Msemo* Tanzania is a unique country in sub-Saharan Africa in having a single, widely used and accepted African national language that connects its entire population. Kiswahili – a l... Read more
It was a harvest of opinions as various shades of the power elite engaged the prospects of enduring democracy in Africa in Abuja. It was at the book presentation of Prof Isawa Elaigwu’s newe... Read more
