Presidential candidates in Kenya held their second debate on February 25, 2013 in a run up to the presidential elections to be held on March 4, 2013.

“If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own” – Chinua Achebe
Africa cannot — and should not — be limited to a single narrative. “Africa Straight Up” is a more complete story about Africa and …

Richard Turere. PHOTO/Paula Kahumbu
Richard Turere 13, is a young Maasai boy who lives in Kenya’s wilderness, and has been responsible for tending his family’s cattle since he was 9.
Often, he’d discover that lions had attacked …

Presidential candidates in Kenya held their first debate on Feb. 11, 2013 in a run up to the presidential elections to be held on March 4, 2013.

During the past fifty years, more than US$1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Moyo asserts, however, that this assistance has made African people no better off.
Eschewing the glamour …

Full speech of Professor Wole Soyinka at the South-South Economic Summit