Rogue Chiefs

Boko Haram offers relatively better life for some women than north Nigerian society. Many women have looked to religion for a space of relative autonomy, generating the apparent paradox of female support for sharia law

Less than 40% of women who experience violence seek redress. Most turn to family and friends rather than formal institutions.

The “Rainbow nation” seems to have revealed all its ugly stripes over the past few years: a rise in incidents of racism, tribalism, xenophobia, factionalism and continued high levels of gender-based violence.

The “Rainbow nation” seems to have revealed all its ugly stripes over the past few years: a rise in incidents of racism, tribalism, xenophobia, factionalism and continued high levels of gender-based violence.

The author has been in the room during the big peace talks in the Horn of Africa, interviewing and befriending the region’s Big Men. The result is indigestible but brilliant.

The women empowered to talk about their concerns openly in WhatsApp discussion groups, and had more access to information.

So far there have been 458 cases, including 271 deaths, in two DRC's provinces. This could get much worse. In Liberia’s case, over two years, 4,810 people lost their lives to ebola.

Nollywood contributes 1.42%of Nigeria’s GDP, and the sub-Saharan fashion market is estimated at US$31 billion, or one tenth of the global market.

In a continent where only 6% of arable land is currently irrigated, Ethiopia aims to allocate US$15 billion to irrigation development by 2020.

“…these objects…cannot be returned to a so-called ‘owner’, since these owners don’t exist [during colonialism] for these museums because these countries did not exist at the time” – French historian Pascal Blanchard.

The elder Nyarota’s world-weary schadenfreude contrasts vividly with Ndlovu’s youthful exuberance.

Nollywood contributes 1.42%of Nigeria’s GDP, and the sub-Saharan fashion market is estimated at US$31 billion, or one tenth of the global market.

Boko Haram offers relatively better life for some women than north Nigerian society. Many women have looked to religion for a space of relative autonomy, generating the apparent paradox of female support for sharia law

Some services that NGOs supported tended to focus on sexual violence from a stranger and not the overwhelmingly more common forms of sexual violence such as intimate partner violence.

Only 38% of women and 48% of men in Kenya knew of a vasectomy for family planning. And only 0.01% of the men interviewed in Zimbabwe admitted having a vasectomy.

Approximately 100,000 enslaved Africans were transported to the Danish West Indies.

An expanding democratic space and high levels of corruption also mean that al-Shabaab is able to exploit Kenya's governance weaknesses when it comes to security.

With runner-up Martin Fayulu challenging the result, and the powerful Catholic church and the French also casting doubt on his victory, Tshisekedi is unlikely to have an easy road to power.

There hasn’t been a peaceful transition of power in DRC since the end of Belgian colonial rule – one of the most brutal - in 1960. Violent protests followed rigged elections in 2006 and 2011.

The reported falls in the rates of FGM are far greater than previous studies have suggested.

Boko Haram offers relatively better life for some women than north Nigerian society. Many women have looked to religion for a space of relative autonomy, generating the apparent paradox of female support for sharia law

Africa needs to heal the psychological effects of “centuries of alienation and enslavement” to regain self-esteem and self-respect.

The elder Nyarota’s world-weary schadenfreude contrasts vividly with Ndlovu’s youthful exuberance.

Some services that NGOs supported tended to focus on sexual violence from a stranger and not the overwhelmingly more common forms of sexual violence such as intimate partner violence.

The author has been in the room during the big peace talks in the Horn of Africa, interviewing and befriending the region’s Big Men. The result is indigestible but brilliant.