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The world a better place?

The question being: Is our world a better place than any period within, say, the past one hundred years? For this article, the...

Zimbabweans, Malawians running out of ‘life’

Every time another foreign national is chased from a home, a business is abandoned, a family is scattered or a sick person is...

Live from the corporate asylum

I was half-naked, late for work and hopping around my bedroom looking for my shoe when Tebusika began diagnosing the entire workforce in...

Infidelity double standards

Infidelity is one of those issues where society seems to have two completely different sets of rules, one for men and another for...

When killing becomes the answer to a dispute

There are some news stories one reads as a citizen and simply moves on from. Then there are those that force one to...

What will become of a world without the United Nations?

As wars rage on in Ukraine, Iran, Gaza, Lebanon and Sudan, to mention a few, the role of the United Nations in securing...

Turnaround time for Master’s office?

History will confirm that more often than not, when commissions of inquiry are established in the country, there is always a hype and...

Africa’s future demands less donor dependence

Africa’s youth have delivered a message many leaders have spent decades avoiding. While the abrupt withdrawal of USAID funding has revealed painful gaps...

Disaster is around too often

Venezuela and Japan. Then add to those the big hurricanes. The wildfires of France and Spain came out of the blue and into...

Economics of evictions: Displacement vs land acquisition costs

Thecountry constantly wakes up to issues of land tenure, which are more pronounced in farm evictions. This is a recurring issue that requires...

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