Africa is not some small village located somewhere at the tip of the world and Africa is not some small country located somewhere at the corner of the globe. Africa is not some small country full of hungry mouths and diseases and Africa is not some small town full of nothing but poverty and war. Africa is a continent. Africa is the second largest continent on planet earth with over a billion
Africa is gradually abandoning capital punishment and the death penalty and the reason is quite simple -- Capital punishment is barbaric and quite unfair in most cases. The Republic of Benin officially abolished the death penalty in 2016. The Republic of Madagascar and Congo abolished the death penalty in 2015. 5 years earlier (in 2010), Gabon also abolished the death penalty for all crimes. Not
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Not so many people know and not so many people understand. Why? Because the few who know do not share and the few who understand do not explain and so the story continues but in silent dreams - dreams full of several "whats" and "whys". The very few good Samaritans who decide to share what they know are often handsomely rewarded with early graves while the very few who try to explain, end up with
Africa is the land of many sounds. Africa is the rhythm of life. We dance not to the beat of the sounds but to the rhythm of the drums. We dance not just to the rhythms we hear but also to the rhythms we do not hear. Some people think they know but they do not know. Some people think they understand but they do not understand. There are several things we Africans do not know and there are
Not long ago, America’s president Donald Trump referred to Haiti, El Salvador and some countries in Africa as “shit-hole” countries. Although the internet exploded with anger in favor of Africa, Haiti, and El Salvador, Trump's comment wasn’t surprising to most of us. In fact, not so many of us got angry after hearing those disparaging remarks and the reason was because, we expected things like
Burundi, Gambia and now South Africa have officially notified the UN Secretary-general of their intentions to leave the International Criminal Court (the ICC) and from the look of things, many other African countries may follow suit. Why are African countries abandoning the ICC? Well, it is because of “fear” and “distrust”. The ICC came on the scene in 1998 as a way to pursue some of the world’s
