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APRM at crossroads: Where is the AU leadership?
The African Peer Review Mechanism is facing a litmus test. The grapevine among the donor community across the continent is something to worry about. Apparently they are voicing worries that the once lauded African success story may be gradually facing its demise.
President Abdoulaye Wade's constant bashing of NEPAD
President Wade of Senegal has been complaining about NEPAD's ineffectiveness for the last two years. Now, if one has no background information why Wade talks like that at every opportunity about NEPAD, one can make many grave mistakes in a public debate.
Kenya on the international spotlight
Perhaps one of the biggest tests of democratic practice is for political leaders to be ready to practice competitive politics by selling their ideologies and their leadership beliefs to their electorate, and expect to be voted into office on the basis of the popularity of their ideas and visions.
The Gambia, the smiling coast that never stops to sweat!
Take your pick, morning, day or night, one thing that the Smiling Coast that is the Gambia will guarantee any visitor, especially from the chilly Eastern Africa is plenty of flowing sweat!
Where did tiny Gambia get the cash to host the most lavish AU summit?
There is a serious contradiction in the Gambia. Its wealth and vast resources are not visible on its website. Its GDP, population and standard of living all agree that it is one of the poorest countries in Africa and the Third World. Yet, on arriving at the Banjul International Airport, one suddenly meets with astounding surprise and confusion.
The Kigali Africa Governance Forum brought African leaders closer to their people
Perhaps the biggest resolution to come out of the forum was the reaffirmation that despite sceptics and pessimists disparaging and predicting the failure of the two initiatives to deliver Africa out of its present morass, African governments had committed themselves to the goals and ideals of NEPAD and APRM and there was no going back.
The AU has a duty to protect her citizens from racist murders & lynchings in communist Russia
The killing of African students in Russia brought back my memories of yester years when a young British tourist called Julie Ward died in one of the game parks in Kenya. The trauma and intimidation the Kenya government went through at the hands of the British government was impossible to imagine. We were called all sorts of names and accused of all manner of evil. Kenyan political leadership was put on the spot for nearly a decade. Yet, when an African dies, brutally murdered in Russia, Britain

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