At the age of 85, most men and women are grateful that they have the eyesight, hearing, and energy to play with their great grandchildren. Not so Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade. He fiddled the rules to so he could run for president a third time although the constitution bars it. So instead going home after […]
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Senegal: The Politics Of Death, The Sweet Memories Of Diouf’s Graceful Exit, And Why Abdoulaye Wade Could Win Election Because He Is The Worst Candidate
March 22, 2012 5 Comments Short URL Abdou Diouf, Abdoulaye Wade, Dakar, Karim Wade, Macky Sall, Sall, Senegal, Wade Diplomatic Shenanigans, Naked Chiefs & Emperors, Robbers & Barons
KONY 2012: The Story Of The ‘Evil One’ Has Done Something To The Children’s Hearts; How We Got Here (Part 5, The End)
‘Perhaps Kony 2012’s appeal comes from its “superficiality”, because that way it is able to serve up emotion. Maybe young people connect more to the emotion of stories, not their complexity. And, contrary to what we grown ups think, the kids sometimes need something more than Angry Birds and Grand Theft Auto—they would like to […]
March 17, 2012 35 Comments Short URL Africa, child soldiers, Democratic Republic of Congo, IDPs, Invisible Children, Joseph Kony, josephkony, Kampala, Kony, Kony 2012, Kony 2012 video, Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA, Museveni, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni Naked Chiefs & Emperors, Robbers & Barons, Rogue Stuff
KONY 2012: With Enemies Like These Kony Doesn’t Need Any Friends. How We Got Here (Part 4)
•Troops went into the lands abandoned by the people who were huddled in the IDP camps, cleared away spiritually important trees, emotional landmarks, and altered the landscape. When the people begun returning to their lands after Kony was beaten and driven into South Sudan, they found no “history” or links to the past. The camps, […]
March 16, 2012 11 Comments Short URL Acholi people, josephkony, Kony, Museveni, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni Naked Chiefs & Emperors, Robbers & Barons
Kony 2012 Video, Demons And The Beast, And How We Got Here (Part 3)
“Joseph Kony, a former altar boy subscribing to the same mchuzi mix of traditional-ne-fundamentalist Catholicism as Lakwena, and who also dabbled in the occult, had been lurking in the shadows in the last days of the Holy Spirit movement, recruiting former soldiers to his cause” This is the third part of the well-known and little-known […]
March 15, 2012 4 Comments Short URL Anyanyas, Buganda king Mutesa, child soldiers, ensolo, hatred of northerners, Holy Spirit movement, Invisible Children, Isaac Newton Ojok, Jinja, Joseph Kony, kadogos, Kakira sugar plantations, Kampala, Kony 2012 video, Lakwena, Luwero Triangle, Milton Obote, Museveni, NRA, shea oil, Uganda Freedom Movement (UFM) Naked Chiefs & Emperors, Robbers & Barons, Rogue Stuff
Kony 2012 Video, Sowing The Seeds From Which The Nightmare Was Born, And How We Got Here (Part 2)
I ran into Museveni on the late afternoon of, if I remember accurately, February 4, 1981. He was wearing a short sleeve beige shirt untucked, and khaki trousers, and ambling along in his trademark wobbly walk. He had pistol in a holster to his right side, and another one stuck into his belt to the […]
March 14, 2012 17 Comments Short URL 1.4 million to 1.6 million IDPs, attack, Basilio Okello, British colonialism, Chango Machyo, divide-and-rule, election theft, Gen. Idi Yusuf Lule, Godfrey Binaisa, guerrilla war, Gulu, Invisible Children, Juba talks, July 1985 coup, Kabamba army barracks, Kampala, Kenya-Uganda Railway, King Freddie Mutebi, Kony 2012 video, largest camps for internally displaced people in world, LRA, Military Commission, milk-drinking-banana-eating weaklings, Milton Obote, Museveni, Museveni sworn in, Nairobi PeacenTalks, northerners, southerners, Tito Okello, Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF), Uganda Patriotic Movement (UPM), Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), Weekly Topic Naked Chiefs & Emperors, Robbers & Barons, Rogue Stuff
Kony 2012 Video, The Brouhaha, The Long Hunt For A War Criminal, And How We Got Here (Part 1)
“The LRA had punctured a hole in her upper and lower lips, then run a padlock through it—and walked away with the key. When they found the woman, she was emaciated, and had a rotting wound stuck around the padlock” THIS IS THE STORY OF KONY, OR RATHER KONY 2012, that sensational […]
March 13, 2012 10 Comments Short URL been abducted, charter plane, child soldiers, Daily Immigration Department, Daniel arap Moi, Democratic Republic of Congo, East Africa, farewells, forcefully recruited, Invisible Children, Israeli tourists, Joseph Kony, KANU, Kenya, Kikambala Paradise Hotel, Kony 2012 video, Lord’s Resistance Army, Mobutu Sese Seko, Mombasa, Mwai Kibaki, Nairobi, Nation Media Group, President Museveni, Sudan, terrorist attack, The East African, the misled, The Monitor, Wagula Oguttu, Winnie Byanyima, work permit Naked Chiefs & Emperors, Robbers & Barons, Rogue Stuff
Fish Men vs. Fishermen: A Tale Of How Chinua Achebe’s Gods Got Tired Of Dishing Out Free Goodies
Mention fish in Kenya – the eating of it, the fishing of it, and the trading in it – and one automatically thinks of western Kenya. And if you want to get into the small details, you will learn that Kisumu City is the “fish capital” of Kenya. Nearly all Kenya’s fish processing factories, used […]
January 30, 2012 4 Comments Short URL Bantu, between 1998 and 2008 Lake Victoria water level fell by more than 1.5 metres, Central Kenya, central Uganda, Chinua Achebe’s gods, dynamite fishing, East Africa, feeder rivers and streams, Fish, fish capital of Kenya, fish feed, illegal fish, Kabale, Kikuyu, Kisumu City, Lake Victoria dying slow, Mwanza, Nyeri, Tanzania, Ugachick, water hyacinth Aliens & Stars, Robbers & Barons
Let The Nigerian And Ugandan Protestors Burn Down Their Cities…But Should First Stop Being Jokers In The Rulers’ Circus
What a week it has been in Africa. In Nigeria, nationwide strikes against the Jonathan Goodluck government decision to scrap fuel subsidies today entered their fifth day. In Uganda, traders who closed their business in anger at sky-high interest rates, failed to reach agreement in a meeting with President Yoweri Museveni and representatives of the […]
January 13, 2012 1 Comment Short URL 500-600 people killed, Angola, authoritarian compromise, authoritarian/corruption bargain, Boko Haram, Christians, cities, clan, clowns, corruption, cronies, extremist Islamic militia, flout municipal laws, fuel subsidies, improving schools, interest rate protest, issues-based politics, Kampala City Traders Association (KACITA), Kenya, killed 100 people, kinship, lot of the poor, National Resistance Movement (NRM), nationwide strikes, Nigeria’s 1.2 trillion Naira ($7.4 billion) fuel subsidy, Nigerian protestors, pot-holed roads, power outages, President Jonathan Goodluck, providing safe water, ruler’s circus, shootings, tribal, Ugandan protestors, unpredictable Africa, Walk-to-Work (W2W), wave of bombings, Yoweri Museveni Political Barometre, Robbers & Barons
Record 17 Presidential Elections In Africa In 2011, 78% Of Them Disputed: Are Free Polls UnAfrican?
There were a record 17 presidential elections in Africa in 2011. There were face-offs in Benin, Bourkina Faso, Central African Republic, Uganda, Zambia, DR Congo, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Liberia, Nigeria, Niger, Madagascar, The Gambia, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Chad, Cameroon, Cape Verde. Except in Zambia (where the volatile but intriguing Opposition leader Michael Sata defeated president […]
January 2, 2012 3 Comments Short URL Africa, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, DR Congo, Ivory Coast, Julius Nyerere, Liberia President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Madagascar, Michael Sata, Niger, Nigeria, Nobel Peace Prize, rigged elections, rigged polls, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, The Gambia, Uganda, vote fraud, Zambia Robbers & Barons, Yakky Politics
Kenya Media Sinned But Hides Its Head In The Sand And Won’t Learn The Right Lessons From 2007/2008 Madness: A Self-Criticism
There is a saying in our trade that the difference between journalists and doctors is that the latter publish their mistakes – while the doctors bury theirs. There was a reminder of that yesterday (January 23), when the International Criminal Court in The Hague, confirmed charges against four Kenyans for their alleged role in the […]
January 24, 2012 24 Comments Short URL at Harvard University, Berkman Centre for Internet & Society, blogs, boycott, commentariat, doctors bury their mistakes, Francis Muthaura, Henry Kosgey, ICC, IDPs, Ivory Coast, Joseph Nyagah, Joshua Sang, journalists publish their mistakes, Kalonzo Musyoka, Kass FM, Kenya December 2007 election, Kenya newspapers and TV, Machiavellian firmness, mainstream media, Makau Mutua, Mount Kenya Mafia”. With every other day, Musalia Mudavadi, Najib Balala, NARC, Ocampo Six, ODM, ODM Brigade, ODM Pentagon, online petition, Police chief Maj. Gen. Hussein Ali, Pre-Trial Court, Radio Milles Collines, referendum, Rwanda genocide, SMS, Sunday Nation, talk-shows, The Hague, the narrative of a dangerous “Mt. Kenya Mafia, Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto Fast & Furious, Robbers & Barons