Let’s say you’re the chief astronaut on the Mission to Mars. Let’s say you’re 4 months into your 7-month journey. Would you take an 8th grader’s advice on where to make the next turn?
The very complex and explosive issue of land redistribution in South Africa was horribly confused and totally exaggerated yesterday by a Tucker Carlson Fox News lie which Donald Trump picked up and tweeted. The Rand fell. South Africa is now more furious with America than ever. What’s going on America? Don’t you have enough to lie about?
“State Capture.” No, that’s not a Russian transliteration or a jeopardy clue for the boardgame, Risk. It’s a South African English phrase describing the nefarious control that mobsters, international arms dealers and flagitious politicians held over the South African Republic for 9 years.
As I’m writing this protestors are 
Kenya tries too hard to be western. It even started to reign in widespread corruption, trying to achieve that fine line that western countries manage between corruption and lobbying.
Was Donald Trump brought to power by Harry Potter?
Today is World Lion Day, an unofficial designation employed by wildlife organizations. In the last quarter century the population of The King has 
Real hopes that I had yesterday of bringing visitors back to Zimbabwe are now exactly like the three innocent, unarmed young people shot by soldiers on the streets of Harare yesterday afternoon: dead.
At a time when democracy has lost its cache all around the world including in America, Zimbabwe today blinked a glimmer of freedom. We’re all on pins and needles wondering if that blink will flicker or flourish.
The evisceration or even 
‘Work hard with homage to our lord and your assured place in the kingdom is safe.’ 
One week from today thirty years of Zimbabwe could be discarded and a new age for this beautiful, resource-rich country could begin. Or not.
Look to the Dark Continent for light at the end of the tunnel. Cautiously.
The Obama family just took a “secret safari” in Tanzania in a private reserve owned by an 
Today in Johannesburg President 
Yesterday’s much heralded peace accord between Ethiopia and Eritrea was seen as a glimmer of hope that people power and democratic ideas might be at last challenging some of Africa’s most autocratic regimes.