Charles Onyango-Obbo

These two things are true: Ghana's founding father and legendary Pan-Africanist Kwame Nkrumah was a bachelor when he became the country's Prime Minister on March 6, 1957, upon its independence from Britain.

Trump’s African supporters love him not because he did and will do good things, but precisely because he won’t, and despises the continent.

Caption for the landscape image: Botswana's independence party, the Botswana Democratic Party, just got “Kanu-fied”. It lost power in a

East Africans talk about railways far more than they build them, but at least it is dreaming.

Caption for the landscape image: Just over a week ago, veteran Ugandan opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye and his long-term ally Haji Obeid

On November 5, as anxious Americans headed to the polls to decide what to do with Donald Trump (in the end, they elected him president again), something tucked away in a wire story from war-ravaged Sudan struck me profoundly.

Caption for the landscape image: If there were a new wave of Covid-19, how many people would get vaccinated?

There's a big contradiction: while voter disaffection in Africa seems higher than ever, simultaneously, people are generally less radical and prone to violence

Many are billing this as a race between Raila and Youssouf, with Randriamandrato in with a longer shot. If Raila were to prevail, he would exact some Kenyan revenge.

A regional federalist who goes by the name Jumuiya Sungura on social media said he had a vivid dream about an East African podcast called “Lunatic Express Reloaded” which he hosts.