OPINION | What value does Zimbabwe’s Emmerson Mnangagwa bring to Davos?
/ 31 May 2022

OPINION | What value does Zimbabwe’s Emmerson Mnangagwa bring to Davos?

Contemporary African intellectuals, historians, self-styled Pan-Africanists, patriots and good old liberal political commentators such as myself carry divergent opinions of why South Africa shuns — or does not commemorate — Africa Day. I have, ever since my country shrugged off Rhodesian colonialism in 1980, bought the story hook, line and sinker that May is truly […]

Hero’s war on mutilation
/ 24 May 2013

Hero’s war on mutilation

Bogaletch Gebre was born in rural Ethiopia in the 1950s into circumstances "not much different than most of the girls of my time".