Fiat Lux
April 4 2016 – Two years have gone by, and still no end in sight for the ordeal that has been meted out to the so-called Chibok girls. These are the unfortunate young women who were abducted en masse – more than 250 of them — from a school in north-eastern Nigeria. The dramatic abduction set off a global outrage as political leaders and other public individuals and bodies called for…
July 7 2016 This past week has witnessed a resurgence of Israel’s diplomatic activity within the Eastern African region with the high-profile visit of the Jewish state’s prime minister, Benyamin Netanyahu (“Bibi”), to a number of our countries. The occasion of his visit was made to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the famous “Raid on Entebbe” in which Bibi’s younger brother, Yonatan, was killed when he led an Israeli…...
April 6 2017 – Education, as we commonly talk of it, is that process by which an individual is taken through formal structures that inculcate in him/her a certain body of knowledge and values qualifying the individual for a useful and serviceable existence. This usually denotes the school system, complete with its classrooms, teachers, syllabuses and books. But there is always another education, which is not that formal, one which…...
August 4 2016 South Africans went to the ballot box this past week to elect local councilors in what was described as a hotly contested election presenting the ruling African National Congress (ANC) with its stiffest challenge since the end of Apartheid. Indeed, early trends in the tallying of the votes indicated that the ruling party was struggling in places like Gauteng as the Democratic Alliance (DA) looked like a…...