East Africa

'Missionaries, Mercenaries and Misfits'. Interview with Rasna Warah

  Q. In your book, you and the other authors speak about the 'failure of the development industry'. Can you briefly explain the main arguments? A. When they speak of the failures...

EA Integration and Cross Border Migration: Key issues for the regional agenda

by Dulo Nyaoro As the five East African governments accelerate the momentum towards regional integration, which is contemplated to be complete and functional by the year 2015 some...

Africa: Rethinking in action! Interview with Chambi Chachage

Q. First of all, could you explain the aim and the meaning of your blog's mission statement 'rethinking in action'? A. Rethinking in action is an adaptation of the phrase '...

New forms of citizen's engagement

by Fatma Alloo I come from Zanzibar where we claim to be Zanzibar first and then something else! 'Where people do not go to street to demand [electrical] power (umeme) but do so...

Status and Challenges of East Africa's Extractive Resource Industry: Towards a better future for the mining industry in East Africa

by Gladys Kirungi  The current trends in the Extractive Resource Industry (ERI) in East Africa, specifically the discovery of oil reserves in Uganda, Kenya's determination to find...

Rebuilding Somalia: Whose role and responsibility? Interview with Mohamed Aden Sheikh

  The Somali Diaspora Q: In respect to the worsening of the crisis in both the political and humanitarian fields, are the efforts of the diaspora growing? Or do you think that...

The Kadhi Courts Debate in Tanzania and the 'Primacy' of the Secular State in East Africa

by Aidan Eyakuze The state and religion in East Africa have never been completely separate. There is a Judeo-Christian heritage in common law and a strong faith-based education...

Somali Crisis: Five questions on key actors and regional dynamics. Interview with Matteo Guglielmo

  Q: The media depicts Somalia as chaos, do you agree with this perception? To what extent is the international media complicit in the problems of Somalia? A: I totally disagree...

Ibrahim Farah: Letter to Nelson Mandela

In early 1991, soon after the Somali civil war broke out, I have had the opportunity to meet with the late Somali President Siyad Barre who told me about you and how greatly he...

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