Month: November 2015

Cabo Verde’s PAICV: From Liberation Movement to Trampoline Party | by Abel Djassi Amado

26/11/2015

“If there has been any kind of ideological suicide, it is only of everything that Amilcar Cabral believed in. The end result has been the moral degeneration of the PAICV for the shabby profit of the party’s hoi oligoi.” Former president of Cabo Verde and leader of the African Party for the Independence of Cabo … More Cabo Verde’s PAICV: From Liberation Movement to Trampoline Party | by Abel Djassi Amado

Targeting Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Kenya | by Elsie Akwara

16/11/2015

“Young people and adolescents are in danger of losing their futures to unplanned pregnancies and a never-ending cycle of poverty” Kenya has one of the highest adolescent fertility rates in sub-Saharan Africa. A low of 2% at aged 15, rates of childbearing increase to 36% by the age of 19. One of the reasons for … More Targeting Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Kenya | by Elsie Akwara

A Half-Empty Set of Rusty Cabinets

06/11/2015

On minimal inspection, the rationalization of the state which the bureaucracy is invented to instigate is, in Nigeria, a dismayingly disorganised set of rusty filing cabinets. The classical image of administrative bureaucracy is a clean room. The workers, human outside, have become automatons in grey clothing. Their badges may bear their names but all that these … More A Half-Empty Set of Rusty Cabinets