Draleti Louis

Punishment, at its best, is not cruelty; it is not a failure to "turn the other cheek"; it is moral restoration. It is the way that a society says, "We still believe in right and wrong." Uganda's tragedy is not excessive punishment but rather its arbitrary application, especially its absence where it is needed the most. This is how we got here.

If one were asked to pinpoint the exact moment in history that one-shotted the activism landscape in Africa, it would be the 1896 Battle...

The 1960s started as a decade of great promise for the African continent. From Algiers to Gaborone, Dakar to Mogadishu, independence...