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In his 1886 Gothic novella, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson tells the tale of Dr Henry Jekyll,...
The death of Mwai Kibaki, Kenya’s third president, has predictably elicited a lot of commentaries. There have been the usual hagiographic tributes...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is hardly the first time a nuclear power has attacked a non-nuclear nation. That raises questions about the arguments...
There have been many comments about Africans’ reactions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the horrific violence it has unleashed on Ukrainians and...
I have been wondering why the Western media’s 24-hour coverage of the ethnic conflict in Ukraine has left such a sour taste in the mouth. It is not...
The conflict raging in Ukraine between Russian and Ukrainian Slavs, the latter with the support of a tribal coalition of nations across...
As the United Nations Security Council debated Russia’s move to recognise the independence of two breakaway regions in Ukraine and to deploy...
For months now, the African Union has been twisting in the wind over the question of granting Israel observer status. In July last year, AU...
With just six months to go till Kenya’s general elections, preparations are in full swing. But the Kenyan authorities seem to be struggling at...
Kenyan academic, activist and public intellectual, Dr Wandia Njoya, recently described Kenya’s government as being “spectacularly British”. She...
As in the rest of the world, 2021 has not been the best of years for democracy in Africa. It has seen the return of military coups in West and...
The US Supreme Court could be on the verge of one of the greatest rollbacks of abortion rights in the country in a generation. The court is...
The second in line to the British throne, Prince William, has once again caused an uproar by blaming population growth in Africa for the declining...
Corruption in the United Kingdom is once again in the news. Conservative Party MPs have been caught with their hands in the till, abusing their...
The killing of Agnes Wanjiru, allegedly by a British soldier, in 2012 is once again back in the news. The body of the 21-year-old sex worker and...
When he was first elected in 2013, Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, along with his running mate, William Ruto, was awaiting prosecution at the...
The publication of the Pandora Papers, a significant investigation into how world leaders and public officials use offshore tax havens to hide...