Category: OP-ED

By Leo Igwe Like other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, most people in Botswana are religious and profess believe in god particularly the christian god. About 70 percent of the population professes christianity. But the country’s christian and theist demography may include atheists because non-theists remain in the closets due to social pressure on people to profess religion and identify as... Read More

By Leo Igwe For muslims across Nigeria and Africa, this is a difficult time to profess belief in an all powerful, all merciful and compassionate Allah. This is a moment that declaring faith in this revered deity, in asserting that Allah truly and certainly exists is challenging because there is every reason to entertain serious doubts and to disbelieve yet... Read More

The Interview of Dr. Mehenou Amouzou  – For several decades the public has witnessed the shift of world global economic policies from countries’ production and stable economic indicators, to wild crazy speculations and market derivatives created to hide the real cause of economic instability which is the printing of the fiasco money and fiscal policy! Plainly stated we cannot continue... Read More

By Leo Igwe I am against the ongoing efforts and campaign by the Catholic Church to make the late South African schoolteacher, Benedict Daswa, a saint. While I acknowledge the heroic struggle waged by Daswa against witchcraft based violence and exploitation of his Venda people, a struggle that eventually led to his brutal murder; while I understand the need to... Read More

African traditional medicine is widely perceived as a form of voodoo medicine, as a survival of some stone age pre-modern illiterate formation that still functions and fulfils medical purposes for Africans. This is, at least, how many anthropologists have viewed the subject. They have argued that African traditional medicine is unlike 'western medicine', and then go on to establish how... Read More

Child marriage is still a reality for millions of girls across Africa. The African continent is home to 15 out of the 20 countries with the world’s highest rates of child marriage. Worldwide, approximately 15 million girls every year are married before they reach the age of 18. That is the equivalent of the entire population of Zimbabwe or Mali.... Read More

07 May 2015: The concept of ‘Ubuntu’ should be applied to the ethical treatment of Ebola - and other neglected tropical diseases – in order to change the way that African countries respond to the disease. This is according to Professor Thaddeus Metz, Humanities Research Professor, University of Johannesburg.  Prof Metz interprets the word ‘Ubuntu’ – which means humanity to... Read More