Africans Make A Mockery of “Rigged U.S. Election 2016”

Ear­li­er dur­ing the U.S. pri­ma­ry elec­tions, a pre­lude to the gen­er­al elec­tion process, I said that with Don­ald Trump, the U.S. may be expe­ri­enc­ing the bit­ter taste of its own democ­ra­cy med­i­cine. As you may know, with that democ­ra­cy comes free­dom of expres­sion, free­dom of choice, and assem­bly, all ingre­di­ents that make for a free…

In Case You Missed It: 8/08/16 – 8/15/16

This week’s most impor­tant head­lines out of and about Africa. In this week’s news, Zam­bians go to the polls, and an edi­tor looks at the 2016 U.S. elec­tion and its like­ly impact on the African con­ti­nent. Edgar Lun­du Declared Win­ner of Con­test­ed Zam­bia Elec­tion After ten­sions and calls for a recount of the vote, Zambian…

Democrats and Republicans Promise to Work with African continent

The Repub­li­can (GOP) and Demo­c­ra­t­ic nation­al polit­i­cal con­ven­tions were inter­est­ing. Of equal inter­est was the near absence of any­thing African in them. More broadly—while the con­ven­tions illu­mi­nat­ed the vast dif­fer­ences between Democ­rats and Repub­li­cans in Amer­i­ca, at least with an unusu­al nom­i­nee on the GOP side, they spelled out where both par­ties would like to take…

In Case You Missed It: 12/28/15–1/3/16

The most impor­tant in this week’s head­lines out of and con­cern­ing Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up. In this week’s news, elec­tions in the Cen­tral African Repub­lic bring hopes for rec­on­cil­i­a­tion, Cameroon’s Pres­i­dent thanks the U.S. for their help in the fight against Boko Haram, and Somalia’s al-Shabab group uses footage of U.S. presidential…