Category Archives: Article
Tintswalo Ngobeni, 22, fled to England from Africa as a teenager Caught attentions of King Mswati III – monarch notorious for lavish lifestyle Began contacting her at school when she was just 15 Wants asylum saying she could be … read more »
Posted in Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Pan African News, Southern Africa, Swaziland
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Tagged Birmingham, Boarding school, England, Home Office, Mswati III, Roger Godsiff, Swaziland, Umhlanga
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By Teklu Abate The regime in Ethiopia and the opposition in the Diaspora and at home appear to live in totally different ‘worlds’. Each is a typical alien to the other. The governing party sees the opposition as powerless, incompetent, … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Ethiopia, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Hailemariam, Human rights in Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, United States Constitution
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When I was coming of age in my part of the African continent, I was oriented to four major metaphors for what my environment considered most important in our social discuss. The first was Zik, which I later learnt was … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged Achebe, Chike Obi, CHINUA ACHEBE, College of New Jersey, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Ugorji, Wole Soyinka
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By Joe Igbokwe All roads lead to Ogidi in Anambra State , Nigeria the home town of the late (Ugonabo) Professor Chinua Achebe on Wednesday May 23 2013 for the sage’s final burial. People from all walks of life will … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged Achebe, Anambra State, CHINUA ACHEBE, Goodluck Jonathan, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Ogidi, Things Fall Apart: A Novel
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By Susana Edjang The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that have driven the global development agenda, since September 2000, when Kofi Annan, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, and 191 member states surprised the world by unanimously agreeing and making, … read more »
Posted in Article, Cote d'Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Op-ed, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, International Monetary Fund, Millennium Declaration, Millennium Development Goal, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations, United Nations Millennium Declaration, World Bank
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By Abukar Arman If the latest development in Somalia gives you the feeling of being trapped in the Twilight Zone—somewhere between relative security and renewed bloodshed—you are not alone. Due to the array of competing internal and external interest groups … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Op-ed, Somali
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Tagged Abdi Farah Shirdon, Ethiopia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Kismayo, Mogadishu, Somali, Somalia
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Canada recently just celebrated Victoria Day on the 20th of May, remembering a woman who is regarded as the longest serving monarch in British History and very well regarded as an embodiment of what the British Empire represented at its … read more »
Posted in Article, Op-ed, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged British Empire, Canada, Facebook, IndepthAfrica, May, Monarchy, Queen Victoria, Victoria Day, Zimbabwe
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by Prince Charles Dickson The Edos say “Ehemwen wÿÿ iren te gua so ihuan, ren te vbe gua ku, sokpan ukpÿ iye-ÿkhÿkhÿ ÿre ÿ ma gie iren ku iku iren vbe avan”. A cockroach knows how to sing and dance, … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged Boko Haram, Cockroach, Hotel Rwanda, IndepthAfrica, Ministry of Information (United Kingdom), Nigeria, Rwandan Genocide, state of emergency, Waiting staff
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by Professor Wole Soyinka As a celebrated author, Professor Chinua Achebe’s final burial rites hold this week, I was on the road between Abeokuta and Lagos when I first learned about his death. Who called first – BBC or a Nigerian journalist? … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged African Writers Series, africanliterature, CHINUA ACHEBE, Cyprian Ekwensi, Flora Nwapa, indepthfrica, Nigeria, Onitsha Market Literature, Wole Soyinka
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There is Somali adage that says, “Old man knows what causes his death.” When President Hassan Sh. Mohamud of Somalia started his speech at the second London Conference on Somalia (LCS II) on Maya 7, 2013, with the metaphor of … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Op-ed, Somali
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Tagged Eritrea, eritrean, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Intergovernmental Authority on Development, Jubbaland, Kenya, Kismayo, Somali, Somalia, somalian, Uhuru Kenyatta
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Selam Kidane From Here to Dignity The lord and master rides by on his horse and the peasant bows lowly and silently farts (a clever old saying… apparently) I came across the above saying in my readings on: shame pride … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged ArbiHarnet, Asmara, Demographics of Eritrea, Eritrea, eritrean, German, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Sinai
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House cleaning or window dressing? Are they playing us like a cheap fiddle again? For a while, it was all about the Meles Dam and how to collect nickels and dimes to build it. That kind of played itself out. … read more »
Posted in Alemayehu G. Mariam, Article, Columnist, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Alemayehu G. Mariam, Eskinder Nega, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, IndepthAfrica, John Kerry, Meles, Meles Dam, Non-governmental organization, World Bank
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Like many young men and women growing up in Nigeria, Shmuel consistently heard that the Igbo people were Jews. Yet, two centuries of Christian Colonialism prevented him and many other Igbo from exploring that connection further. When an Internet café … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged African American, Igbo, Igbo Jews, Igbo language, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, Jews, Judaism, Nigeria
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By Olusegun Adeniyi If there is any development that depicts the state of affairs in our country today, it is what happened last week following the coordinated attacks by Boko Haram on police, army and prison formations in Bama, Borno … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged Anambra State, bokoharam, Borno State, Damaturu, IndepthAfrica, Nasarawa State, Nigeria, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yobe State
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Zekre Lebona You can see for yourself- the city is like the ship rolling dangerously; it has lost the power to right itself and raise its head up out of the waves of death. Thebes is dying. There is a … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Adam Hochschild, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, Milan Kundera, Oedipus, Oedipus the King, Sophocles
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By Tambay A. Obenson A year ago, Yidnekachew Shumete was one of 3 Ethiopian filmmakers selected for a week-long visit to Monaco and Cannes for workshops, programs and events happening during the 2012 Cannes Film Festival in May. Shumete, along … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Addis Ababa, Berlin, Cannes, Ethiopia, Film festival, IndepthAfrica, Medal Of Honor, Monaco, Seattle International Film Festival
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The practice of city pastors commandeering all the tithes and offerings to themselves while pauperizing their village counterparts is one of the reasons every pastor is running to the city to establish a church. Tithes and offerings are biblical injunctions … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Nigeria, Obinna Akukwe, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged Christian, God, Gospel of Matthew, jesus, Jews, Levite, New Testament, Tithing
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Alemu Tafesse, Political Analyst and academic Anti-authoritarian struggles creep into the symbolical world both in content and form. Acts of defiance send across sparks of moments that carry multiple meanings to multiple audiences. In many instances, with more repression, more … read more »
Posted in Alemu Tafesse, Article, Columnist, Op-ed
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Amharic, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, ethiopian muslim, Government, Kality, Muslim, People of Ethiopia, wedding
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By; Kiflu Hussain I might never have known about the existence of African Media Initiative (AMI), had I not received an invitation from this organization that sounds well intentioned. In 2011, I was pleasantly surprised by an email from … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kiflu Hussain, Op-ed
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Tagged Amy Winehouse, Arizona, Facebook, IndepthAfrica, Julie Larson-Green, Martin Luther King, Microsoft, People, River Song
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — An Ethiopian court ruled Tuesday that prosecutors have two weeks to finalize corruption charges against two dozen people who have been arrested, including a senior Cabinet minister. The 24 people charged include the head of Ethiopia’s … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Pan African News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Anti-Corruption, Associated Press, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, Melaku Fenta, prosecutor, Rod Blagojevich corruption charges
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By Chibuzo Ukaibe,Leadership (Abuja) The 36 governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) yesterday asked President Goodluck Jonathan not to yield to the agitation for a declaration of state of emergency in troubled states in the country. … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan, IndepthAfrica, Nasarawa State, Nigeria, Nigerian, rivers state, Rotimi Amaechi, state of emergency, Yobe State
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The international community must keep Eritrea under “close scrutiny”, an independent United Nations expert said today, stressing the need to fundamentally transform the East African nation’s “current culture of rights denial.” “Blatant disrespect for human rights in Eritrea is unacceptable,” … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Djibouti, Eritrea, eritrean, Ethiopia, Human rights, Human rights in Eritrea, IndepthAfrica, Keetharuth, Politics of Eritrea, Special Rapporteur
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by Valentine Obienyem I think it was Shakespeare who in Macbeth said “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.” I am not a telepathy expert neither do I aspire to be one. Human nature is so … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged Anambra, AnambraState, Awka, Chris Ngige, Government, IndepthAfrica, Ngige, Peter Obi, State
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(Reuters) – After a crackdown pushed them out of Nigeria’s northern cities, Islamist militant group Boko Haram have regrouped, rearmed and are staging a bold comeback that has already allowed them to seize control over parts of the northeast. Using … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged Abdul Ahmed Ningi, Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram, Borno State, Chad, IndepthAfrica, Lake Chad, MAIDUGURI, Nigeria
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On 29 July 1936 Abune Petros was executed by the Italian fascist that were trying to colonize our country for his refusal to submit. On May 2, 2013 the monument that was built to commemorate our Holy Father was removed … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Debre Libanos, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Ethiopian Airlines, IndepthAfrica, Italy, People of Ethiopia, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, TPLF
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By Abdihakim Aynte Last week, Somalia’s donors and international partners came together in London to lay down the foundations of post-transitional government in the country. The London gathering, which brought together over 50 heads of state and hundreds of international … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Op-ed, Somali
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Tagged Al-Shabaab, David Cameron, Horn of Africa, IndepthAfrica, London, Mogadishu, Somali, Somalia, Somaliland
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By Beny Gideon Mabor “I don’t know what’s right and wrong anymore”, he said, tears streaming down his cheeks. “On the one hand, I am warned that you are the tool of oppression against our people, an enemy of the … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Op-ed, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Abyei, Dinka people, IndepthAfrica, Khartoum, Messiria tribe, Ngok Dinka, South Sudan, Sudan, United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei
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By Teklu Abate Thanks to advances in information and communication technologies, people overcome spatio-temporal limitations. We communicate in real time regardless of where we live. Traditionally, communications and collaborations were made between people and organizations that somehow know each other … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Democracy, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Facebook, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, New York, United States, World Bank
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The year 1983 perhaps was the harshest year in Ghana’s modern history. In some countries there would be retrospectives, symposia and other kinds of public reflections on this most devastating year in our collective memory. When I say “collective”, I … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, Ghanaian, IndepthAfrica, Jerry Rawlings, Kofi Abrefa Busia, National Redemption Council, Nigeria, SMC, Supreme Military Council, UNIGOV
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By; Kiflu Hussain Uganda is a 50 year old independent African country unlike Ethiopia that has been hosting OAU/AU for five decades while enjoying her own thousands of years of “independent”history.Ironically, Ethiopia has no independent institution which is equally … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kiflu Hussain, Nigeria, Op-ed, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Addis Ababa, African Union, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Obafemi Awolowo University, Organisation of African Unity, Osun State, Pan-Africanism
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