Oxfam must be salivating at the marketing success that the Invisible Children (IC) organisation has created with its KONY2012 video. Ironically, there has been an unprecedented backlash over the KONY2012 video, the likes of which has not been experienced by equally manipulative charities. One has to wonder why.
There is probably too...
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To say that 2011 was a dramatic year in politics is putting things mildly. From the Arab Spring in January to the political unrest in Cote D’Ivoire following the April elections, to the death of Kim Jong Il in December and the Christmas day bombings in Nigeria, one could easily have assumed that perhaps the first few months of...
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Liberia’s first woman president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace campaigner Leymah Gbowee and youth activist Tawakkul Karman are the first women to receive the Nobel Peace Prize since 2004. These three women were chosen for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and women’s rights to full participation in...
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Article 21 of the South African Constitution is not such a tricky provision to understand. It says pretty clearly that as a citizen of the country, I am entitled to a passport. It also says that I am allowed to leave the country and re-enter the country. So I am pretty confident that I am allowed to reside outside of South Africa,...
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Somalia is experiencing a crippling famine. Again. As the world’s most failed state for several years running, there is little surprise that country has entered yet another period of instability. Since its societal rupture in 1991 with the end of Siad Barre’s regime, Somalia and its inhabitants have experienced what is...
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When Malawi found itself dealing with violence between protesters and police over a two-day march in July, commentators were quick to jump to the suggestion that the “Arab Spring” had finally reached Southern Africa. The assumption was that the people of Malawi were rising up against the same kind of dictator as Mubarak in Egypt...
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