Chapter In Zimbabwe’s History Ends; Mugabe, Legacy as Liberation Hero Eroded, Dies at 95
Mugabe with the author in New York City in 2002. Robert Mugabe has joined his ancestors, at the age of…
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A True Hero — the Life and Times of Ulric Cross, Trinidadian Pan-African
Filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon and Allimadi. [Commentary] Sunday I saw a great film by Frances-Anne Solomon called “Hero: Inspired by the…
Tribute: E. Otema Allimadi–Honorable Ugandan Statesman Who Abhorred Corruption
E. Otema Allimadi and Alice Allimadi, who feared the family would end up in exile again. [Tribute To A…
Mandela’s 1964 Rivonia Trial Speech — Why I Was Forced Into Armed Resistance
Nelson Mandela. Source: YouTube (Nelson Mandela’s April 20, 1964 statement at his Rivonia Trial in South Africa). I am the…
How Three Ugandan Soccer Fans Cheered for the Cranes in a Stadium Packed With Tens of Thousands of Tanzanians.
[Soccer Story From Archives] This is the season of World Cup fever so I pull out a soccer story from…
Tanzania’s Magufuli Solidifies Democracy, Uganda’s Gen. Museveni Entrenches Vicious Tyranny
Magufuli, a first class African, with Gen. Museveni, last despot of original East African community nations. Photo-Twitter [Africa: Letter To…
The Fall of Robert Mugabe — How Ruling Elite Betray Africa
This is not Nkrumah’s vision for Africa. In 2009, while on a working trip to Harare, I remember ordering breakfast…
Paul Kagame’s Fake Pan-Africanism: A Betrayal to Rwanda and Africa
Kagame at the United Nations President Paul Kagame has been on one of the numerous costly pilgrimages that he makes…
BurkinaStyle: ‘Take Back Your Power’
Thomas Sankara, who loved his African people, relaxing — listen to the speech that got him killed three months later…
Even With Billions of Followers Can Pope Francis’s African Tour Affect Things On The Ground?
Pope Francis in Uganda [Analysis: November Papal African Tour] Will Pope Francis’s appeal to Christians not to just “stand by”…