Tweet It’s interesting, this word ‘African’. The images and representations that pop up in one’s mind when one hears it. Reads it. Or thinks about it. I know what I think when I think about being African, but I’ve always wondered if others shared the same ideas. It’s funny, when you meet people in the…
Tweet Using one language as the medium of instruction seems to be inevitably successful in some countries. However, in multilingual societies such as Morocco and Algeria, basing education on one medium of instruction results in the failure of the whole educational system. In this article, I plan to talk about Arabization, which was implemented as…
Tweet by Eddie Ombagi The 2007 ethnic political violence in Kenya shattered the nation’s image as an oasis of calm in a turbulent corner of Africa. More than 1,200 people were killed and up to 600,000 displaced. The violence assumed an unsettling ethnic character that saw neighbor turn against neighbor with machetes and other crude…
Tweet There is never a dull moment in Africa. We are emerging from the historic year that was 2011 with the North African revolutions, the Ivorian post-electoral violence, and of course the secession of Africa’s biggest country, Sudan. Yet on 29 January the continent was already in heightened mode at the African Union’s (AU) 18th…
