Category: Africa

NOVANEWS Boniface Mwangi The government of President Uhuru Kenyatta in Kenya has lost credibility in the eyes of citizens because of extensive corruption by people that are very close to the seat of power. New […]

NOVANEWS Paul Karanja Kenya is now the third most corrupt country in the world, according to a survey on prevalence of economic crimes released in Nairobi last week by audit firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Kenya only […]

NOVANEWS Liz Alden Wily How the National Constitution treats minorities is a good test of a nation’s maturity. How government applies their rules is a good test of the state’s maturity. New constitution-making has surged […]

NOVANEWS Ajamu Nangwaya Claudia Jones’ Pan-Africanism led to her advocacy for freedom of Caribbean and African peoples from colonialism. She used the organizational space of the Communist Party to advance the cause of anti-racism, world […]

NOVANEWS Since the American Civil War, Africans have been on the frontline of the movement against oppression and economic exploitation Abayomi Azikiwe The struggle of African Americans against national oppression and economic exploitation has continued […]

NOVANEWS Kwame Opoku In a ‘Requiem for Amílcar Cabral’, which is full of praises and admiration for Cabral, the Sao Tomean poet Espirito Santo underlines the important position of the Guinean leader in Africa before […]

NOVANEWS Peter Kenworthy “I am a victim of circumstances”, says activist Mphandlana ‘Victim’ Shongwe of the nickname he is known by because of the decades of state harassment he has endured in his homeland, Swaziland. […]

NOVANEWS Rosemary Kariuki Popular Kenyan politician Josiah Mwangi Kariuki is widely believed to have been assassinated by agents of the regime of Kenya’s first president Jomo Kenyatta, whose son, Uhuru, is now head of state. […]

NOVANEWS Cyprian Fernandes When the African American freedom fighter, Malcolm X, visited Kenya in 1959, he found he had a lot in common with Pinto. They planned a common strategy to deal with the daily […]

NOVANEWS Charles Quist-Adade krumah wanted to industrialize Ghana within a generation, and everything was on course until the Americans and their British cousins used some disgruntled and self-serving Ghanaian soldiers to stage that terrible coup […]