A review of: Rose Lukalo-Owino, A Legacy of Giving: The Story of Mohamedally and Maniben Rattansi Educational Trust, Allavida, Nairobi: 2008. — In Trust for…
Posts published by “Bhekinkosi Moyo”
Bhekinkosi Moyo is trained in political science and currently shuttles between Southern Africa and West Africa. He works for TrustAfrica-a Pan African oriented foundation that works to secure the conditions for democratic governance and equitable development. In 2007, he edited a collection of chapters: Africa in Global Power Play. He has just completed editing an 18 country book on DisEnabling the Public Sphere: Civil Society Regulation in Africa.
Disclaimer: This is a reprint of an article I wrote in 2005 and was subsequently published by an online newspaper, NewZimbabwe.com. In re-reading it, I…
My view is that politicians are like chameleons: they change their skin colour depending on the environment that they want to adapt to. This is…
I want to make it clear that this is not an argument, but a recount of events of the past week. The events have been…
This was a difficult contribution to make for a number of reasons. First, I am very close to the events that I am about to…
The signs are very clear: June 27 and its aftermath spell doom for Zimbabwe. Already weeks leading up to the run-off have been characterised by…
This is probably the last time some people will talk to me. For what I am about to say is well known in the sector…
The crowd went into frenzy. Old and young, men and women, all listened attentively as Innocent Batsani Ncube recited his poems. I had listened to…
Events of the past months make it very difficult to defend the relevance of elections. The cases of Kenya and Zimbabwe point to the need…
Kenya has been spared from sliding into more crises. Yesterday, its Parliament unanimously passed into law two crucial Bills that seek to operationalise the power-sharing…