By Julius Businge The lawyer, anti-corruption activist and worker at the Human Rights and Peace Centre at the School of Law, Makerere University spoke to The Independent’s Julius Businge. What was special about this year’s anti-corruption convention? The Anti-Corruption Convention this year took a more inclusive and participatory posture; we …

By Martin Kimani ICC backers shouldn’t ignore steps Kenyans have taken to deal with the violations of human rights that happened In the years before South Africa became a beacon of democratic progress, it was the site of some of the world’s most notorious human rights violations. In addition to …

By Joseph E. Stiglitz The euro was supposed to bring growth, prosperity; instead, it has brought stagnation, instability, and divisiveness It has been three years since the outbreak of the euro crisis, and only an inveterate optimist would say that the worst is definitely over. Some, noting that the eurozone’s …

By Joan Akello Prof. Ndiege seeks to reconcile an institution haunted by its past Prof. Isaiah OmoloNdiege, the vice chancellor of Uganda’s second biggest university, Kyambogo, has the unenviable task of running a combination of former technical college, a teacher training institute, and a school of special education like a …

John Amory, a doctor at the University of Washington, has been developing a male contraceptive for 15 years. Turns out, it’s harder than it sounds. He explains why. Why is it taking so long to produce a birth-control pill for men? Women make one egg a month, but men make …

By Andrew M. Mwenda He explains why he fell out with Jennifer Musisi over money and why he cannot work with Museveni. First of all, are you Mayor of Kampala given that council voted to impeach you? If you believe in the rule of law in this country, you must …

By Naomi Wolf The sense of entitlement that sustained his male fecklessness has been steadily eroded ever since The 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy provides an opportunity to consider the shifts in consciousness in the United States that have occurred in the half-century since his death. …

By Laurent Fabius The gravity of the situation there is leading the UN to speak of the threat of genocide In the course of its young history, the Central African Republic has known many dark hours. Now the country is facing its worst crisis. In this failed state, entire swaths …

By Ellady Muyambi Government’s resort to the use of force or threats in the Lukwago case will culminate in disaster I am compelled to write this article after viewing ugly and worse scenes on our national TV stations and reading concocted stories in our newspapers on the impeachment of the …

By Paul Kagame Few were less comfortable with the prospect of sainthood than Nelson Mandela himself. “One issue that deeply worried me in prison,” he wrote in Conversations with Myself, a collection of his writings published in 2010 “was the false image that I unwittingly projected to the outside world: …