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The tragedy of Zimbabwe and the misguided support some African intellectuals and leaders still give the Mugabe dictatorship as we saw today with the tepid resolution passed at the concluded AU summit in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egpyt betrays the current poverty of African nationalism.

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Fourteen years ago I had the strange experience of being named by the then Malawi opposition party, the United Democratic Front (UDF), as Shadow Minister for Industry and Energy, strange because I knew nothing about either field. The UDF went on to win the elections thereby ending the thirty-year old dictatorship of President Kamuzu Banda, but I was saved the capricious life of a cabinet minister preferring to continue the far less glamorous career of an academic.

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Zimbabwe is burning with unprecedented levels of violence intended to intimidate the population into voting for the octogenarian dictator, President Robert Mugabe, in next week's elections who lost the first round of presidential elections last March to the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, Mr. Morgan Tsvangirai.  read more »

Hardly a few months now go by without a major summit between Africa and the world's leading economic powers. One and half years ago, in November 2006, there was the glittering Beijing Summit which I wrote about in an earlier blog that brought leaders from 48 African countries to China and signaled to the world China's entry into the world's second largest continent.  read more »

Africa and the world at large are reacting to Senator Obama's victory as the presumptive nominee in the U.S. Democratic Party electoral contest with mixed emotions. Parts of Africa have been gripped by Obamamania and many would like to believe it ushers a new day for the US itself and its relations with the continent, the ancestral homeland of the senator's father. Others contend it will be business as usual, that putting a black face in the White House will not change the imperial policies of the United States. Such views are heard most loudly in the Middle East.  read more »