Tafi Mhaka

The al­le­ga­tion that Ngu­gi used to beat his wife should start a new con­ver­sa­tion on pa­tri­archy in Africa.

I have no love lost for Zim­bab­we’s Em­mer­son Mnan­gag­wa, but I will not cel­e­brate the sanc­tions im­posed on him by the US.

Jour­nal­ists speak­ing truth to pow­er are un­der at­tack in Zim­bab­we and across the globe.

Clear­ly, Ger­many has learned noth­ing from its long his­to­ry of geno­ci­dal vi­o­lence.

The African Union can­not en­sure sus­tain­able peace on the con­ti­nent with emp­ty state­ments on ‘broth­er­ly re­la­tions’.

The re­gion­al body should not al­low elec­toral ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties to threat­en democ­ra­cy and de­vel­op­ment in South­ern Africa.

Sus­tain­able peace can­not be built by com­man­ders re­ly­ing on per­pet­u­al con­flict to main­tain po­lit­i­cal pow­er.

Africans, who know this sto­ry well, should not let the West put Gaza un­der an Is­rael-friend­ly pup­pet gov­ern­ment.

No, Is­rael does not have the ‘right’ to ‘de­fend it­self’ against a pop­u­la­tion liv­ing un­der its oc­cu­pa­tion.

Ethiopia’s dreams of build­ing a new ‘great pow­er’ in its neigh­bour­hood should wor­ry all Africans.