The past year was a mixture of two emotional hues for Uganda following the enactment of the anti homosexuality law. Whereas proponents of the law celebrated and rejoiced in its enactment, critics and activists alike were concerned that the law would unleash an array of rights concerns in Uganda. However, besides this binary of positions, […]
While describing China-Africa cooperation, Chinese officials have always argued that there are two fundamental thrust forces to the thriving cooperation between China and Africa. The two are; one, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and two, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). The FOCAC, is also the flagship vehicle for people to people exchanges between Africa and […]
Africa Must Leverage China Cooperation and Elevate or Stay the Arena for Great Power Rivalries By George Musiime Today, we live in a very challenging world, a world desperately in need of sound global moral-leadership. While this might not happen today, Africa is not lacking in potential. The African continent could actually provide this global-leadership, if […]
In an interview with CGTN last year, Mr. Wu Peng, director general of the department of African affairs in the Chinese foreign affairs ministry summed up the Chinese government’s view of its interactions with Africa in a single memorable statement in which he noted that “Africa is a big stage for international cooperation, not an […]
The situation in Gaza has been progressively deteriorating since last October. Yet even after a phone conversation with president Biden, Prime minister Netanyahu went on to make a televised statement in which he asserted that Israel could not defeat Hamas without marching on Rafa, alluding to the existence of battalions of Hamas operatives “among the […]
At the dawn of African independence, Kwame Nkrumah is quoted to have said “Seek ye first the political Kingdom and all else shall be added unto you.” However, as reality has proved to us, whereas political freedom might have been a necessary condition for Africa’s economic freedom, some analysts contend that this was not necessarily a sufficient […]
As Africans, we cannot continue to be a people that turn on our own because we have outsiders urging us on to do so. We are as human, as the next human trying to help us determine our destiny. Unfortunately, to use the words of one notable Son of Africa Dr. Kaihura Nkuba, the biggest […]
