The sudden assertion of human criteria within a dehumanising framework of political manipulation can be like a flash of lightning illuminating a dark landscape
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africa & democracyThe International Criminal Court needs to get closer to those in whose name it operates
He led South Africa beyond apartheid. He
remains a global hero. But what of the
revisionist case?
To charge Sudan’s president with genocide and war crimes in Darfur is momentous - and dangerous
A one-man election faces Africa's leaders with a choice - to turn
against Robert Mugabe at last
The wars provoked by Sudan's revolutionary Islamist regime are failing to deliver the regional control Khartoum seeks
A national disaster needs a strong, imaginative - and global - response
The agreements that govern European-African trade need a late rethink
How far were the pogroms prefigured by Kenya’s political elite long before the first ballot was cast?
Zimbabwe and Kenya offer a
different mix of colonial folly and African leadership
The Commonwealth in Kampala failed to live up to its own principles
Tuareg revolt and commercial-political rivalry drive Niger to an abyss
The effects of war, poverty and displacement dominate the daily lives
of Somalian women
African political unity is a tough project but one that will not go away
A transformation project that moves beyond racial categories can become the vehicle of a deeper liberation
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