How Do You Solve A Problem Like The Gambia?
Six months ago, businessman and political novice Adama Barrow took power in Africa's smallest mainland country after delivering a stunning ...
Tag: Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Fake News, Torture, Cover-Ups
Police brutality, "fake news" propaganda and official cover-ups at the height of apartheid have been laid bare in a South ...
South African ‘political’ Murderer In Parole Limbo
Inside South Africa's maximum security Groenpunt prison, hawk-eyed guards stroll between rows of wooden benches, watching inmates closely as they ...
S.Africa Apartheid-Era Police Custody Death Case Opens
A policeman who was with a South African anti-apartheid activist when he fell from a 10th-storey window in the 1970s ...
South Africa Confronts Apartheid-Era Custody Deaths
The brutal death of anti-apartheid campaigner Ahmed Timol was allowed to go quietly unsolved in the interests of South Africa's ...
John Mahama On Ghana, The Gambia and the ANC’s Decline
When John Mahama stepped down as president of Ghana in January 2017, he became the first in his country's history ...
Ahmed Kathrada, Anti-Apartheid Activist and Mandela Prison Mate
South Africa's anti-apartheid icon Ahmed Kathrada, who was jailed alongside Nelson Mandela, was feted as a humble liberation hero who ...
Gambia To Set Up Truth Commission To Probe Jammeh’s Rule
The Gambia will set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate abuses committed during ex-President Yahya Jammeh's rule, the ...
The Real and Imagined Crimes of Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh
The Gambia's former president Yahya Jammeh wielded a potent mix of brute force and mysticism to keep citizens in a ...
What Leadership Style Does Nana Akufo Addo Bring To the Table?
I was listening to an interview of Madereka Nyerere, son of late President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, on Voice of ...
Trumps Victory And Eventual Presidency; President Sirleafs Concerns; Where I Disagree
Many Americans have and continue to express serious concerns about their president-elect, business executive Donald J. Trump, Sr. While some ...
Tear Down the Gandhi Statue [3]
By Kwarteng, Francis “India gave South Africa Gandhi the barrister and Africa gave India back Mahatma Gandhi the Great Soul” ...
Tear Down The Gandhi Statue 3
“India gave South Africa Gandhi the barrister and Africa gave India back Mahatma Gandhi the Great Soul” (Nelson Mandela). “We ...