Kofi Busia: A Stimulant For Today’s Democracy

Feature/Ghana/Africa Democracy Ghanaians are enjoying their 19-year-old democracy. Why not! They have spent most of their 54-year statehood in autocratic one-party systems and dictatorial military juntas. Freedoms, a very critical indicator of their democracy, are breaking out everywhere, wheeling the democratic tenets. One will never believe that this was a country where at some time… Continue reading Kofi Busia: A Stimulant For Today’s Democracy

The Loud Silence on The Situation in Swaziland

Today marks the 38th anniversary when King Sobhuza II suspended Swaziland’s independence Constitution and banned the existence of political parties in the country’s political life. Labour unions, students and civil society organisations have planned what they hope to be the mother of all protests to mark the event. Inspired by the events in Tunisia and… Continue reading The Loud Silence on The Situation in Swaziland

No African Country is Immune to The Call for Change Sweeping Across The Continent, Not Even South Africa

Africans and people of the Middle East have spoken; and in their loud and clear voices, they have unambiguously made it clear to their governments that cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and any abuse of state resources and public power for the benefit of the few will no longer be tolerated. At present, demands for political reforms… Continue reading No African Country is Immune to The Call for Change Sweeping Across The Continent, Not Even South Africa

How Far Will African Dictators Go to Quell The New Wave of Popular Uprising?

African countries are going through a dynamic change, a change that the regimes cannot curtail even with the oppressive state apparatuses that have been employed over the years vehemently hold power. Two leadership casualties have been recorded so far; Ben-Ali of Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. These protests which regimes describe as social unrest… Continue reading How Far Will African Dictators Go to Quell The New Wave of Popular Uprising?

SELF PERPETRATION IN POWER BY AFRICAN LEADERS: LESSONS FROM EGYPT

By Abiodun Fatai Why are African leaders fond of perpetrating themselves in power?  This has been the case with the late Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire, Mohammad Gaddafi of Libya, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Paul Biya of Cameroon, Kamuzu Banda of Malawi, former Ibrahim Babangida of Nigeria, Omar Bongo of Gabon and Laurent Gbagbo of… Continue reading SELF PERPETRATION IN POWER BY AFRICAN LEADERS: LESSONS FROM EGYPT