VOA’s Vincent Makori talks to VOA State Department correspondent Scott Stearns about U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Africa trip. The discussion includes an analysis of Clinton’s comments on China’s surging interested in Africa.

In Northern Kenya, the Morans and Samburus communities are notorious for fighting against each other leaving hundreds dead every year. This is unfortunately an unknown conflict that the media seldom reports. In 2008, when I traveled to this region I was shocked to hear that tens of people were killed in the conflict days before [...]

This is the first analysis of President Umaru Yar’adua after the announcement of his untimely death. (via Africa is a country) Yar’adua will perhaps be remembered for being the first Nigerian politician to declare his wealth upon taking office. My condolences to the Nigerian people and, like Texas in Africa, I hope the transition to [...]

The rainy season is about to commence. With it, a new cycle of malaria mosquitoes are about to make new victims.  NTV Kenya has an interesting material on malaria programs in Uganda:

Sam Ongeri is at the center of a political scandal between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Prime-minister Raila Odinga. When the prime minister asked Ongeri to step down on allegations of corruption and funds mismanagement, Kibaki overturned his decision creating yet another controversy in East Africa’s most corrupt country (according to Transparency International). Today, Mr. [...]

This CNN report is fairly cheesy but it does say something important about the Africa we choose to ignore or pretend it does not exist.

Better late than never, but here you have it: Obama’s full speech in Ghana.