On December 17, 2015, President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya announced that the country will host the next Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation. On the same day, terrorists seized a police vehicle in Kenya’s coastal county of Lamu. It was never clearer than at that moment that the country was in the midst of…
Inspired by Nelson Mandela’s dream to help transform lives and advance society, Schools for Africa was founded in 2004 by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, the Hamburg Society, and UNICEF. Promoting equality for education to over 13 different African countries, this initiative has helped more than 30 million children get the proper education, schools, teachers…
John Pombe Magufuli, was elected President of Tanzania on October 25, 2015. Backed by Chama Cha Mapinduzi, Tanzania’s dominant political party, Magufuli secured the election with 58% of the votes to Edward Lowassa’s 40%. About the Bulldozer Growing up as the son of a peasant farmer, Magufuli found it important to pursue education and…
Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa, rose to power following his party’s victory in 2009, and was recently reelected in the 2014 elections. President Zuma is no stranger to controversy. In 2005 he was charged with rape, but was quickly acquitted. He has also battled legal allegations of racketeering and corruption. His main…
Following the upending event of September 11th in New York City, and the ensuing global campaign against terrorism, the broader security dynamics of almost every region of the world have transformed drastically. Tactics employed by splinter groups today have taken on a new face – one dominated by intense guerrilla warfare aimed at instilling…
Somalia was at one point one of the most beautiful and peaceful countries in Africa, prior to the civil war. After 1991, the entire landscape changed as the central government collapsed and the warlords began a battle of attrition to appropriate the resources of the country. Piracy off the coast of Somalia soon became…
Ghana is a culturally-rich country, with many different ethnic and racial groups living in harmony together. Unfortunately, its economy is in a less harmonious phase, due to many developmental issues. Natural Resources & Poverty Ghana is prosperous in several natural resources, including gold, silver, salt, fish, petroleum, limestone, and timber. Unfortunately, in spite of…
As the world reels from the ISIS led attacks in Brussels carried out on Tuesday, and while still not yet recovered from the Al Queda assault in the Ivory Coast just over a week ago, it seems that citizens globally are living in a new reality where cold, heartless terrorists strike with impunity. In…
Thanks mostly to the presence and behavior of Republican front-runner Donald Trump, the 2016 presidential primary contests are among the most vitriolic and violent in the history of the United States. Trump’s rallies just in the past two weeks have been the scenes of fistfights and ugly confrontations between supporters and protesters. Moving…
“…a master of language, and [your] commitment as a dramatist and writer of poetry and prose to problems of general and deep significance for man, modern or ancient.” – presentation speech by Professor Lars Gyllensten, of the Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1986 Wole Soyinka, Nigerian playwright, author, poet, essayist, teacher and…
