Our Saturday visits to the Museum of Antioquia was an educative one because I got a better understanding of Colombia’s artistic creativity.
The Museum of Antioquia is an art museum in Medellin, Colombia. It houses a large collection of works by Medellín native Fernando Botero and Pedro Nel Gomez. It was the first museum established in[...]

Whichever way you look at it the ambivalently and critically complex nature of the Youth question in Sierra Leone makes it almost mandatory for any progressive government to lend some political will into addressing it albeit willy-nilly. Sierra Leone has a very youthful population unlike South Korea where the ageing dominates. Some months ago the[...]

Okada riders are rather boisterous, arrogant, loud and downright irritating on the road. They pay little attention to the traffic code and road safety is not at the top of their priority. For many people, they are the scourge of the city and their activities must be regulated.
Some have dubbed them derogatory names like, ‘an[...]

Was it the thought of missing out on “piri piri”, the Mozambican style barbecued chicken with succulent jumbo shrimps that put the country’s cities on fire the other day ?
Many people thought so as riot over hike on food prices gripped dozens of towns and villages such as Inhambane, Manica Sofala and Cabinero.
It is however[...]

Our subsequent field visits to symbolic repatriation places in Meddellin were interesting to me because for some odd reason, I had the strange impression that nothing much really happened outside of Columbia. These two places we visited proved me dead wrong. At times the people, buildings, markets and overall atmosphere were similar to those[...]

It was really fun for me to travel again, but this time to South America, Medellin, Columbia to attend a second phase training in human rights, peace and security sponsored by the Swedish government and organized by INDEVELOP Consultants.
The first phase was done in January to February in Uppsala, Sweden for three weeks. Participants were[...]

This year, 17 African countries are celebrating 50 years of independence. In the main, it has been a roller-coaster ride for Africa in the last half a century. In many instances it has been a matter of one step forward, two steps backwards. But at the heart of this has been the issue of leadership,[...]

Do journalists really understand the principles of the Code of Practice?After the launch of the Media Code of Practice in 2007, copies were sent to all media houses registered with the IMC. Since then, workshops have been organised by the Commission in various parts of the country each year to popularize the provisions of the[...]

It’s not like taking the issue of the African continent at 50 years too far. Not like a situation that occurred some years back with a trial judge jailing someone who took his friend’s tape recorder and pleaded that it was all a joke.
Replied the judge, that’s a joke too far.
Well Africa at 50 years[...]

The Chief Executive Officer of African Minerals Limited (AML) Allan Watling has told ministers and the visiting Shandong Iron & Steel team that his visit up at the mines for a week has left him in shock as the construction work has been so rapid that he did not believe his eyes.
Mr Watling who was[...]