24 09, 2021

The African Union and its Reactions to Three Types of Coups in Guinea, Mali, and Chad

By |2021-09-24T18:10:15+00:00September 24th, 2021|Featured, Justice, Practice|1 Comment

Three different types of coups have occurred in Guinea, Mali, and Chad, and they are worth identifying. These are opportunistic, oligarchic, and sultanistic coups. Opportunistic in the case of Guinea, oligarchic in the case of Mali, and sultanistic in the case of Chad. All of the coups were staged as military takeovers of civilian government, but in different contexts.  

12 02, 2021

President Joe Biden’s First Foreign Policy Speech: Its Implications for Africa and the Developing World

By |2021-02-12T20:59:40+00:00February 12th, 2021|Practice|0 Comments

By: David O. Monda President Joe Biden’s first foreign policy speech was high on ideals but low on priorities regarding

13 11, 2020

What Does Joe Biden’s Win Mean For Africa?

By |2020-11-16T15:16:19+00:00November 13th, 2020|Practice, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Biden’s win means that multilateralism is the new game in town. Trump preferred unilateral pursuit of American national interests through bilateral trade negotiations with individual countries on the continent. Ironically, individual countries on the continent gained great traction with the Trump administration. Now policy makers are not sure how the new administration will approach these negotiations.

15 06, 2020

Kenya’s quest for a non-permanent seat on the Security Council is meaningless without United Nations reform

By |2020-08-13T19:40:16+00:00June 15th, 2020|Practice, Theory|0 Comments

Non-permanent rotating membership seats on the Security Council do not afford the weaker nations of the world an avenue to advance their interests. Developing nations are played off against each other by major powers based on the perceived allure of a non-permanent seat. Without reform, these seat are little more than contemptuous tokenism.

12 06, 2020

Immigrant media guru struggles with Kikuyu vernacular African media television station in the diaspora

By |2020-10-08T16:14:10+00:00June 12th, 2020|Practice|0 Comments

What place should vernacular stations have in the diaspora landscape? Are they instruments to preserve cultural heritage or vehicles to sharpen ethnolinguistic cleavages for African migrant communities that have had decades of post-colonial conflict between them? What is true, is that the question of vernacular language in the African diaspora community broadly, is both a bridge and a barrier to bringing the African community together.

4 10, 2019

Long Walk to Freedom: Xenophobia Continues Against African Migrants in Johannesburg, South Africa

By |2019-10-25T20:47:42+00:00October 4th, 2019|Justice, Practice|0 Comments

South Africans need to have a national dialogue about what it means to have immigrants in their midst and what part of this falls outside the country’s earlier vision of being a Rainbow Nation. South African cannot continue to preach the gospel of African Renaissance while it practices the talk of xenophobia

9 03, 2018

Which Way, Kenya: Presidential, Parliamentary, or Hybrid System of Government?

By |2019-03-29T05:56:04+00:00March 9th, 2018|Practice, Theory|0 Comments

The recent proposal to reform the constitutional framework in Kenya with the introduction of a one-term ceremonial president and creation of an executive Prime Minister raises the question about whether a presidential, parliamentary or hybrid system would serve the country better.

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