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THE 2016 Olympics have already shattered records, but even before the first competition began, these Games made history by giving athletes who have no country to call home a place on the starting...
IF you read last week’s article then you do know that this week we are focusing on gifts. Everyone has a gift they were sent to this world with; some have one while others have many;
The region has sent a great team to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Expectations are understandably high that the teams will bring home a haul of gold medals.
With hardly a year to Kenya’s general election, no doubt the heat is slowly rising: Political alliances are redefined, and like pieces in a game of chess, ethnic-based calculations are quietly...
AT the last AU Summit in Kigali, Rwanda, the Commissioner for Trade and Industry, Ms Fatima Haram Acyl, made a passionate case for increased intraregional trade and industrial push as the best...
A CONSTITUTIONAL panel at the watchdog Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance (CHRGG) has lately objected to plans for nationwide demonstrations on September 1 against the stringent...
IN 1963 leaders of African countries that had gained independence met in Addis Ababa to form the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). Out of the current 54 African countries only 32 had gained...
THE consortium which runs Africa's most authoritative public opinion surveys faces funding difficulties. Writing for AllAfrica, Johnnie Carson says that coming at a time when democratic...
ON the eve of President Barack Obama’s 55th birthday, he was greeted in song with "Happy Birthday" Wednesday by about a thousand participants at this year’s Young African leaders summit in...
ONCE upon a time the seat of this country’s government was in Bagamoyo, and in bygone times in Zanzibar. At independence in 1961 the country adopted Dar es Salaam as the capital. Dar es Salaam...
THEY go by all manner of names, come in all manner of tastes and quality standards, and – for obvious reasons – sell at a wide range of prices.
WIMBO wa Jumuiya Afrika Mashariki will now be sang alongside the Kenyan national anthem. The EAC flag will be hoisted alongside the Kenyan flag, too. This is a bold move that will definitely be a...
It can be rightly argued that colonialism interupted Africa’s migration process after the continent was carved into parcels of administrative territories, with each answerable to a foreign power...