I was curious, watched the media, saw Zimbabweans flooding all over Johannesburg and watched them being attacked in the recent xenophobic attacks, even heard some of them criticising Mbeki for entertaining Mugabe. I was even more curious and decided to buy 'the dream deferred - Thabo Mbeki'. This book gave me a clear background and contextual knowlege on the relationship between Mbeki and Mugabe. - It is here that I once again came head-on with words such as comrade,neo-imperialism and the famous anti-imperialism debate came to my mind. On reading Mbeki's debates on African reinaissance, it is clear that what Mbeki is arguing is that Africans must find African solutions to…

- This article will discuss the recent political crisis in Kenya and the position of the Kenyan media following the 27th December election dispute between two main rival political parties ODM and PNU. The critical question here is which voice were being heard from the media and why and the way forward for African democracy. In an attempt to address these issues, a critical approach is taken to the various views on theories of the press such as agenda setting and bullet theories. This will be looked at in the context of theories of democracy, particularly ‘rethinking public sphere by Jurgen Habermus and the alternative ideas of the public sphere championed by Ghanaian Stephen Appiah…

- This was contained in the communiqué in Dar-es-Salaam-Tanzania after a summit meeting between the two leaders chaired by the current Head of the African Union who is also the President of the United Republic of Tanzania Mr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete. The meeting that took place over the weekend at State House Dar-es Salaam was in the context of the implementation of the Ngurdoto-Agreement signed on the 8th September 2007 to ensure follow up and a review as the agreement envisaged regular consultations at summit level. According to the communiqué that was read by the Tanzanian minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Bernard Membe, the two Heads of State noted with satisfaction the progr…

- The only surviving media in Zimbabwe is governement controlled. In Zimbabwe, freedom of expression has been undermined by the closure of privately owned radio and newspapers. Zanu PF is employing 'the last kicks of a dying horse' tacticts to ensure they drive their anti imperialism ideology championed by Mugabe that begun from the year 2000 towards 2004 and is still alive in this year's elections. Mugabe clearly understands the power of the media and has employed every measure to esure that he is in control of the media in Zimbabwe. However, he is short sighted when it comes to understanding the concept of the very same ideology, that has become his verbal diarrhoea in h…