The student protests against fee increases in the higher education system that hit campuses around the country. However, we know that the students' concerns go beyond immediate financial concerns.…
In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt told Americans that, by arming Britain against the Nazis, we’d serve as an “arsenal for democracy.” But during the cold war, the opposite was often true, and apparently…
Impunity in Africa is the order of the day, with the ever widening socio-economic gap leading to even more political rights issues such as corruption, plundering of natural resources and freedom of…
Tanzania’s President John Pombe Magufuli strode into office in November promising to reduce corruption, cut wasteful spending and improve public services. These initiatives are welcome in the East…
"65% of children entering primary school today will ultimately end up working in completely new job types that don’t yet exist." This reality is examined in a new report by the World Economic Forum,…
Last week in Tanzania, now in Kenya. Again newspapers are banned and journalists sacked in the EAC for criticising their leaders. Freedom of expression appears to be under threat.
Kenyan Daily…
Metal detectors and body searches were already mainstream in countries such as Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda, even in shops and churches, but for a number of countries, it is a new phenomenon that could…
Recently-elected Tanzanian president John Magufuli has garnered regional praise for his reformist proposals aimed at rooting out government corruption and incompetence. But his administration is…
Today the informal economy appears to be as important as ever to Africa and its future development. But governments, and international organisations like the World Bank and ILO, do not like the…
Democracy is neither safe nor secure in the region. The greatest threat to its survival is a cynical and power-hungry elite. The risk is that their wayward and self-serving policies will test the…
