Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into...

The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East or Asia, laws and medical care are very different. We strive to make sure that...

I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field.

Everybody looks at oil and almost entirely forget that the percentage of jobs the oil sector creates is relatively small compared to the population; the introduction of more sophisticated exploration methods makes it even worse....

In families one can’t choose one’s siblings. Within regions one doesn’t choose one’s neighbors. And if you are one of the world’s leading producers of a critical industrial resource like copper, in the end you...

The matted straw cover of the latrine was yanked away. The sun blinded me as I looked up at the dark outline of two young soldiers in tattered camouflage, their uniforms made for men bigger...

The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated...

We have to understand that all of Africa is infected. The spread of the virus is wider than we can see from newspapers.

Never is a man more proud than when he shuffles paper in front of an illiterate person.

The year the Europeans seized Jomo Kenyatta (1952), Chepusepa and I were sharing our homestead with Arimo, a Teso, who was a headman of the local road crew. One day, Arimo’s son found an ostrich’s...

Africa is a huge continent; it would take several lifetimes of thousands of researchers testing in hundreds of languages to collect a valid sample of anything, especially IQ. Most Africans do their schooling in a...

Life is Too Short and Memories Are Forever!

The effect forever on the economic life of Africa is there.

…it was even more disconcerting to examine your charts before a proposed flight only to find that in many cases the bulk of the terrain over which you had to fly was bluntly marked: ‘UNSURVEYED.’...

Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate...

I have noticed over the past three years that most African Christians depend on their pastor or preachers for directions in life than their lecturers, politicians and nurses. That tells why most people refuse certain...

I don’t know what the players want to do. We discussed it down there (South Africa) that Ernie wanted to play Tiger, and Tiger wanted to play Ernie. We thought it was the right thing...

African leaders must desire to liberates it’s people through intensive education (formal and informal). The African people deserve to be educated.

Lies Have expiry dates but the truth never expires

It’s a bit shocking when you show up in Africa or you’re in the middle of Spain and there are people that know the words and the young kids singing along.

Studies conducted in a city in Zimbabwe found that half of reported rape cases involve girls less than 15 years of age and that girls are most vulnerable to sexual abuse by male relatives, neighbors...

You keep distracting from the main point, Vaida. I did not come to Harare to study other people’s scars. I have my own to worry about. They make me sick. I will never recover from...

Aside from all that, we recall that antibodies to malaria and other diseases prevalent in Africa show up as HIV-positive on tests.

Africa has no future.

The case of Mr Habre constitutes a symbol of impunity in Africa.

In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had – a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they’d sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn’t...

With the World Cup coming to the continent of Africa for the first time, 2010 presents a unique opportunity to eradicate the shocking legacy of shack housing,

There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.

Youths are the life blood of any nation.

With Africa, we’re talking about a nation battling through immense poverty and he can’t quite get it together to sing a song. On that day he just seemed like an odd image

There is beauty and power in unity.We must be united in heart and mind.One world, one people.

I was scripting for a series on the Arts programme which was shown very late on a Sunday evening, and I was sent off to get the low down on several up and coming musicians...

Young men and women are causing wealth loss to their generation because they are sitting on inert ideas, bottled-up potential energy and scratching the ground when they should be gliding the skies and perambulating with...

…. does a fair trial necessarily amount to a fair outcome?

Abel Muranda fought off furious red ants with mandibles that could cut through a miser’s padlock.

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or eighty thousand persons every year from their own land.

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories…

In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly – in art and literature.

I always return from Africa energized and rejuvenated. ‘¦ Largely because of the African voices — the wisdom in those voices — [I’m] energized and invigorated!

I put my hands behind my head and lay on my back, trying to hold on to the memories of my family. Their faces seemed to be far off somewhere in my mind, and to...

Our brain is a circuit board with neurons and terminals ready to be wired. We are born free, then programmed to obey our parents, to tell the truth, pass exams, pursue and achieve, love and...

You can travel the world but If you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.

The coffin was handmade from the wood of a single Eucalyptus tree. There were no handles, it rested on the shoulders of six elegant tribesmen. These were Maasai from Kenya, the warrior tribe, known for...

There is no excuse for you guys. We believe that you are the best in and out of Africa.

There is always something new out of Africa.

The plant and animal kingdoms (excluding humans) offered some pleasant surprises. Organisms from these realms are much simpler to figure out. Their behaviours are not muddied by personality factors or flawed belief systems. If an...

the deficiency of the negro race is not as a result of the deluge number of bad leaders;rather, its is an outcome of the shortage of young negro intellect ready to lead a revolutionary africa.

Huh. What a dope! Wait till Mom hears about this. He’s so in trouble now. You know how crazy she gets about malaria.