tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60659620251397511172011-11-27T15:52:04.120-08:00A Platform for exploring opportunities for Africa's TransformationAfrican Agendanoreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065962025139751117.post-60038538966238939062010-05-22T20:13:00.001-07:002010-05-24T19:37:24.437-07:00

MDC’s continuing and increasingly notorious splits as opposed to ZANU PF ‘unity’ reflects a great deal about structural challenges MDC faces and broader national issues faced by the nation as a whole. As the party with arguably the most realistic chance of defeating ZANU PF in a general election, it is important to reflect on the dynamics of MDC politics.Since 1999, MDC has split three times. We

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Clearly that was embarrassing. President Obama may have tried to put up a brave face (and he needed to) but the fact remains that that was one of the most stunning loses he has had to deal with since his majestic inauguration in January 2009.However,students of leadership like myself ought to learn valuable lessons from such events. The first thing l learnt without doubt is that charisma will

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A lot of well meaning people literally thought the sky would fall on the MDC for agreeing to be part of the GNU.Well, whilst a lot of their fears have been confirmed, Zimbabweans have had a bit of some breathing space as compared to the cataclysmic period the nation had plunged in post March 2008.We are now 'celebrating' one year of the GNU. One thing is certain though, ZANU PF is now rapidly

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Like any Zimbabwean, l was naturally looking forward to the CNN's Christiane Amanpour interview with my President Robert Mugabe. Regrettably but not surprisingly, l was disappointed. Sometimes l didn’t know whether to cry or even laugh. Mugabe constantly lied through his teeth and Amanpour lacked tact and fact at times.In reference to the evil Operation Murambatsvina of 2005, Amanpour mistakenly

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We live in a world obsessed with intelligence. In the university system, one talks of rankings of institutions, grades and all kinds of ways to separate the intelligent and the slow. We even assume that the Ivy-educated will most definitely always make it in life. I have news for you! It’s not always the case. Now research shows that 75% of one's professional success is determined more by

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Today,1 July 2009 is President's Day in the Republic of Botswana.Naturally,there has been a lot of talk about leadership today.Moreso,because this is an election year.I had interesting conversations with a colleague KB an officer responsible for youth capacity building in an organisation in which l am currently attached to and seperately with my my good Professor Yeagan Pillay on leadership

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I am currently enjoying a month long stay in the beautiful nation of Botswana on a programme arranged between my university,Ohio University and the University of Botswana.I am enjoying working with a number of civil society organisations and of course seeing stunning places like Kasane and the spell binding Grand Palm Hote and conference centre.I will make sure l pass through the Okavango as well

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I write in frustration, wonder and perhaps anger. I write in charged language, something that l don’t usually do.The death of Omar Bongo, Africa's longest serving President has drove me to deep thought and reflection. The man had been in power since 1967! President Mba, the first leader of Gabon had with a rare decision reminiscent of those endowed with prophetic unction, rightly discerned Omar

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Zimbabwe in Transition: A 100-Day Report Card

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I believe in progressive debate. We are at a point in Zimbabwe where some people are asking questions l sincerely think are the wrong ones,i.e should we pull out of the GNU? Rather we should be asking how to survive and maybe thrive in the GNU. It is practically counterproductive to begin to talk about pulling out now. Whilst l sympathize with those who feel ZANU PF doesn't deserve to be the

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In December 2008 world renowned African public intellectual Professor Mahmoud Mamdani from Columbia University in the US wrote an article entitled ‘Lessons from Zimbabwe’ which drew widespread and almost embarrassing backlash from fellow African intellectualls.Infact one response had 35 names of prominent intellectuals and Human Rights activists in Africa lambasting and lampooning Mamdani's

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The Madagascar crisis presents a major challenge to both SADC and AU,that is their ability to deal with errant leaders.While the SADC suspended Madagascar in an unprecedented move that ostensibly warrants cautious optimism,it remains unclear whether suspending a country with whom the region does not have strong economic ties with will be of any political consequence to Rajoelina's regime.It's

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I am sure l am one of the many Zimbabweans to be surprised by the news of Lynde Francis' death. She was one of the first people in Zimbabwe to publicly disclose their HIV positive status. She had been diagnosed in 1986 and she had been the founder and director of The Centre, an organization run by and for people living with HIV and AIDS. We all knew she was HIV positive but she was such a fighter

African Agendanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065962025139751117.post-31227925052593689622009-03-28T17:44:00.000-07:002009-04-03T13:12:28.047-07:00

The manner and pace of the collapse of President Marc Ravolomanana was as stunning as it was revealing. In 2006, he had convincingly won a fresh second term and yet in two years his army deserted him.Infact in the 2006 elections, he actually carried 75.39% of the vote in Antananarivo, the same capital used by his rival to topple him in March 2009. Such a landslide victory could possibly have

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