Asia
Why There Are No Presidential Elections in China?
No Chinese citizen wakes up one morning saying, “I’m going to vote for my President.” WHY? Because the Chinese President is not chosen by the people. He is selected [Read more]
World News
Africa
There Will Never be World Peace Until Imperialism is Dead: Hands Off Ibrahim Traore.
There is no better time for African Unity than now. On April 2, General Michael Langley, a United States (US) Marine Corps, who became the sixth Commander of United States [Read more]
Africa
USA: A great generation is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from Within
Donald J Trump believes that he has the magic formula to bring back the glory days and “Make America Great Again” (MAGA). Since the Second World War, America was never [Read more]
Africa
Democracy Dies When Raw Power Rules and Lawlessness is Legalised
Even before Donald Trump won the elections in November 2024, those familiar with the general feel of African democracy or democracy in Africa could see the parallel and linear similarities [Read more]
Critique Column
Brexit: Was this Britain’s Gravest Political National Self-Harm Episode?
On Friday, at 11:00 PM, 31 January 2020, Britain officially left the European Union (EU). It was a divorce that was not contested by either party and was settled on [Read more]
Africa
Burkina Faso: The Machiavellian Threat to African Leaders.
Captain Ibrahim Traore took power in Burkina Faso on 30th September 2022, citing former President Paul Henri-Damiba’s inability to deal with the country’s worsening armed uprising as the raison d’etre [Read more]
Critique Column
How United, is The United Nations?
The United Nations, with a current membership of 193 was established in 1945. After the United Nations’ Charter was ratified by its main proponents China, France, The United Kingdom, The [Read more]
America
Has Democracy Lost Its Utility?
“A government by the people, of the people and for the people” has always been the most celebrated and simplest definition of DEMOCRACY. Conventional wisdom has it that the term [Read more]
America
The United States of America: A Democracy of Ironies
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the [Read more]
Africa
Does Senegal Give Hope to Third Parties In Africa?
Senegal has just voted for Bassirou Diomaye Faye, 44 as one of Africa’s youngest Presidents. This is coming at a time when countries like America are grappling with the choice [Read more]
America
When The Ignorant Are In The Majority, Democracy Slides Towards Autocracy.
The ancient Greeks are credited with inventing democracy, “Demos kratos” which literally translates to “people power” as a form of government. Some therefore describe democracy as a government of the [Read more]
Africa
Should The Whole of The African Continent Support the Coups in The Sahel?
As controversial as the question in the title might sound, Africa and especially its generations need to wrap their heads round this question. In the face of democracy as a [Read more]
Africa
Are The Coups in West Africa A Third World Movement to Decolonise the African mind?
It might have started long before Patrice Lumumba of the then Congo was betrayed and killed by the Belgians. Since then, the political history of Africa is known as the [Read more]
Africa
When Democracy Fights Democracy, A Country Disappears from The People’s Consciousness.
There seems to be a new political wind blowing across the Sahel, and the congealed ideologies within this wind of change is generally felt across the African continent. If the [Read more]
Europe
O`Neill Automatisierung Pledges Support to Skill Training in Sierra Leone
Christopher O’Neill of the O`Neill Automatisierung who is also a renowned Rotarian in Germany, has donated start-up kits for at least two potential graduates of Youth Resource Academy (YRA) in [Read more]