Culture-Society

On February 4^th, 2021, Dominic Ongwen, a former child soldier and commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) was convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 61 of 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The crimes include murder and attempted murder, rape, sexual slavery, forced marriage, torture, etc.

As we celebrate this year's IWD on March 4th, let us acknowledge that women have, among other things, three key strengths that set them apart: ability to multi-task, emotional fortitude and a low propensity for gross corruption.

“I’ve seen dictators rise and fall. Beware, America”, writes Rushdie on the eve of the American Election.

In my life, I have seen several dictators rise and fall. Today, I’m remembering those earlier incarnations of this unlovely breed.

To say India has become a big player on the world stage is cliché but it is true. A year ago, it overtook the United Kingdom as the 5^th largest economy in the world. Today its military ranks 4^th in the world. The influence of its soft power as embodied in Bollywood is global. It is not pointless to pose the question: what constitute Indian values? But the question is inherently a complex one. No clear-cut answers are possible.

As a black African woman living in Europe and like many other women, I have often been subjected to multiple forms of discrimination including gender and race. Consequently, we are often left behind in career advancement in management and leadership positions. Such inequality led me and a group of women of African descent from around the world to establish a platform, Phenomenal Women Global (PWG), aimed at sharing our challenges and experiences regarding career advancement and our professional lives.

As an African woman, born and raised in the motherland, I had never experienced racism until I came to study at a European university. When I first encountered racism, I was naive and unable to identify a racist act immediately until a white student to whom I narrated my experience, confirmed that it was racist.

How fast the years run. It was only yesterday that a handful of us sitting in a Kampala tea joint broch the idea of a high-powered magazine that would be issued from Africa*. The magazine would talk to Africa and the world about Africa and about the World.The year was 2012. By April of that same year the magazine got going ...

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honor and no grace ... all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed