Monthly Archives: February, 2018

Handel African Books Network has been as a punch line publishing and connecting Africa for several decades Discover the Handelbook quality Striding three cities from the South East region yet, for an online network, such locations seem just a trifle. As...

More than 40 South Sudanese officials may be guilty of crimes against humanity, the UN says. South Sudan plunged into civil war in 2013, two years after gaining independence More than 40 South Sudanese officials may have committed crimes against...

Democracy which thrives on the will of the greater collective resulting in a government of the people by the people and for the people is virtually non existent in every state of the Nigerian federation State Police will be abused...

The Monrovia Church massacre in 1990 was the worst single atrocity of the Liberian civil war. About 600 civilians, including many children, were killed while taking refuge in a church... 

Written by Lorenzo Kamel  On January 17, Italy's parliament approved the deployment of up to 470 troops in Niger to combat "irregular migrant flows" and the trafficking of people towards Libya, and, from there, to Europe. A number of other European...

CAPE TOWN — Jacob Zuma resigned on Wednesday as the president of South Africa, after his party, the African National Congress, pressured him to step down a year and a half before his second term would end in the...

As written by Gebreluel, Bedasso and Mamo, ethnic politics is not a necessary evil that Ethiopia has to live with - it is rather an existential threat.  Ethiopia has been experiencing recurrent mass protests, riots and ethnic conflicts over the...

A poetic travelogue through the West African lands of Nigeria, Togo and Ghana with records of encounter with the beautiful people, landscape and flora. The Millennial collection of poems by Chin Ce

Accountability in leadership should flow from copious examples. It goes beyond mere sloganeering. My support for a new breed leadership derives from the understanding that it will show a marked departure from recycled leadership to creating new paradigms that will breathe fresh air into our present polluted leadership actuality.

Africa is poor, but we can try to help its people. It's a simple statement, repeated through a thousand images, newspaper stories and charity appeals each year, so that it takes on the weight of truth. When we read it,...