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Anti-gay law: Why Uganda wants to become a pariah
The hysteria picked up big time just after Uganda discovered oil in 2005.”...
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Please sir, I want some more honour for literary heroes like Shabaan Robert
Dickens created characters – Pip, Oliver Twist – that as a child you could almost touch.”...
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Mission Impossible: Turn the Kenya Police around
Just under 40 candidates were selected to interview to serve on the new National Police Service Commission. The Commission’s...
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Madam steals your salary, cellphone companies steal your credit...
Many people tend to get oppressed because of their ignorance. And we tend to blame them for “encouraging” the oppressors...
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Bahati Bill is perverse and silly; such a law would never be enforced anyway
He and similarly minded MPs entertain the debatable notion that homosexuality can be taught and spread.”...
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Darker side of globalisation comes to Tanzania
About two or three years into the Fourth Administration, Tanzanians started throwing rocks at politicians. The very first...
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Doctors’ strike: When govts cut off flow of information, they get gangrene
Over the past year, East African governments have been confronted with numerous strikes and strike threats by public service...
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From 40m Kenyans, surely a real leader will emerge?
We need men and women to bring alive the values and institutions proposed by the Constitution.”...
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Sinduhije arrest part of systematic harassment of Burundi regime critics
Recently the Burundi police arrested a prominent anti-corruption campaigner, Faustin Ndikumana, who reportedly claimed that...
