In the spirit of 1964, Africa must turn indignation into agency and sovereignty into strategy COMMENT | ANDREW PI BESI | I returned from my annual pilgrimage to Rujumbura, undertaken in observance of Christmas, only to be confronted by reports that the United States had, under cover of night, undertaken military …
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. COMMENT | ANDREW BESI | In 1985, the British band Latin Quarter released their haunting anthem Radio Africa. One of its verses rhymes thus: “ Mozambique and Mugabe Still got FRELIMO I hear them say But exchange means Recession means It all means it’s harder to take Tanzania could be …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price