Kosgei to defend women’s London Marathon title
The 25-year-old will face a daunting challenge from a host of compatriots in defending her crown
The 25-year-old will face a daunting challenge from a host of compatriots in defending her crown
Ever since Bobi Wine, Uganda’s biggest pop star, won his seat in parliament in a contested 2017 race, western journalists have flocked to the country’s capital, Kampala, to conduct interviews with and profile him. The interest is certainly justified: in a short time, Wine, real name Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, has turned a decade-long career in […]
No one knows how many Ethiopians are in South Africa — but Abiy knows he needs their support
ANC 108 lays bare Cyril’s failure President Ramaphosa is in a disastrous position for someone elected the way he was and with enemies circling Matric pass rate hides failures Performance in critical subjects is declining and the number of passes at 30% is a sign of the shortage Learner excels after long journey Sibabalwe Mkungwana […]
On paper, the Bino family of Kowa (formerly Elliot), Eastern Cape, are a land reform success story. In 2000, they applied with their relatives to pool their government subsidies and buy the 500-hectare Killcholoumkill farm, which the government had bought from a white commercial farmer for the purposes of land reform. Over the past 20 […]
There are a number of cases in the past decade where Africans have managed to push the conversation beyond liberal reforms as a political goal or did not spent all their energies on the politics of nostalgia, harkening back to a simpler time of national liberation or charismatic leaders. Young people, a generation with no […]
As we enter a new decade, President Cyril Ramaphosa faces an even more daunting task of rebuilding a deteriorating economy, staggering corruption and the appointment of incompetent officials. Principled leadership is required in all spheres of government to put the country on a path of economic growth and to improve the quality of governance. The […]
There are a number of recent cases in the last decade where Africans have managed to push the conversation beyond liberal reforms as a political goal or did not spent all their energies on the politics of nostalgia; i.e. to harken to a simpler time of national liberation or charismatic leaders. Young people, a generation […]