Fiat Lux
March 9 2017 The debate around the need to have a serious constitutional review in Tanzania is simply refusing to go away. Every week we learn of new legal action taken by members of civil society that seek to challenge this or that act undertaken by government officials that people find unjust, unfair or illegal. Increasingly, this is becoming a litigating society in which more and more people are willing…
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…...
May 21 2015 – From time to time we get to hear African rulers and their henchmen take swipes at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for what they call “targeting Africans.” This usually happens every time an African ruler has been indicted by the ICC for crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide. Our rulers get excited, froth at the corners of their mouths, and bang tables, all…...
September 29 2016 – Most of our cities on the African continent are bursting at the seams with motor-vehicle traffic. It is divine bliss when one finds oneself in a capital city like Lilongwe, Malawi, where one can afford to take out one’s car for a pleasure ride around the town. Generally the scene is of a chaotic mélange of nauseating fumes, suffocating dust, blaring horns and foul-mouthed drivers and…...