Ghana’s President John Atta Mills, died on Tuesday aged 68. If the gods of democracy exist somewhere out there, then they are sending very mixed signals to African democrats. There is now a nearly-established fact of African politics. The strongmen and dictators not only rule longer (naturally), they also seem to live longer than the […]
July 26, 2012
Short URL Africa, Bingu wa Mutharika, democracy, dictators, Ghana, Goodluck Jonathan, Guinea Bissau, John Atta Mills, Joyce Banda, Kenya, Malam Bacai Sanah, Malawi, Muammar Gaddafi, Mwai Kibaki, Nelson Mandela, Samuel Doe, Thomas Sankara, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua Heroes & Villains
The countries that want a place at the World Bank High Table where the pie is being sliced should pay for it…and back in Africa, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, ex-wife of South Africa president Jacob Zuma deserves to be the next African Union boss. She survived marriage to the philandering and polygamous Zuma, she should find being AU […]
April 17, 2012
Short URL Addis Ababa, African Union, Algeria, AU Peace & Security Department, Chinese, contributes $9.9 Million to the World Bank which is 0.14 %, ECOMOG, ECOWAS, Egypt, Finance MinisterNgozi Okonjo-Iweala, Gabon, Guinea Bissau coup, internationalist heart, Jacob Zuma, Jim Yong Kim, Korean-American, Libya, military rule, moral hazard, Muammar Gaddafi, new AU headquarters, Nigeria, Nigeria population is 160 million, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ping, president Paul Kagame, Rwanda, South Africa, US contributes $1.51 Billion of the World Bank which is 22%, vote-stealing governments, World Bank Diplomatic Shenanigans, Politically Incorrect
When dictator Mobutu succumbed to prostate cancer, it was the first time anyone would have anything good to say about the dreaded disease – and also the first time the cancer showed any revolutionary potential In “Democracy Is Dying Or Dead In Africa; The Continent Is Being Torn Apart – Yet That’s One Of The […]
April 2, 2012
Short URL Abdulsalami Abubakar, Africa, Angola, “the hand of God”, Democratic Republic of Congo Mobutu Sese Seko, Diego Maradona, Durban, Egypt, Ethiopia, General Abdulsalami-Abubakar, Gnassingbe Eyadema, Hosni Mubarak, Kamuzu Banda, Lilongwe, Malawi, Malawi Congress Party (MCP), Muammar Gaddafi, Ngbendu Kuku wa Zabanga, Ngwanzi, Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, Rwanda, Rwanda-backed rebels, Sani Abacha, Southern Africa World Economic Forum 2000, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Fast & Furious, Politically Incorrect, Rogue Stuff
Tuareg separatist rebels in Mali have taken advantage of the confusion in the capital Bamako following the recent coup against President Amadou Toumani Toure, to gain more territory. They are reported to have surrounded the historical city of Timbuktu, and wo important northern towns, Kidal and Gao, fell to them and their Islamist allies in […]
April 1, 2012
Short URL Africa, Alassane Ouattara, Angola, Baganda, Bamako, Banyamulenge, Big Man rule, Capt Amadou Sanogo, civilianised, Darfur, Democratic Republic of Congo, Diego Maradona, Economic Community of West African States, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Eduardo dos Santos, Ethiopia, executed 20000 civilians, forces of history, Ghanda Koi Songhai militia, greed, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Khartoum, Kidal Gao, Libya, Mali, Matebeland massacres, military coups, Mombasa Republican Council, Muammar Gaddafi, NATO bombing, Niger Delta, Nigeria, North-Korean-trained Fifth Brigade, one-party dictatorship, post-independence, regionalism, Robert Mugabe, secessionist, Somalia, South Africa, South Kordofan, Sudan, Tanzania, Timbuktu, Tuareg, Tuareg people, Tunisia, Tutsi, Uganda, Zanzibari independence, Zimbabwe Aliens & Stars, Political Barometre, Rogue Stuff
