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Ngugi: Kenya’s Democracy on Trial
Znet Article, January, 05 2008
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
On Thursday December 27th 2007, shortly after polling stations were closed, Kenya was hailed as having fulfilled an African dream – to have a free and fair closely contested democratic election. But less than 48 hours later it was clear that the ...
Ngugi: Justice for Mau Mau Veterans
Znet Article, December, 13 2007
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
As the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) prepares to sue the British Government for personal injuries sustained by survivors of the Mau Mau war for independence whilst in British detention camps in Kenya, Mukoma Wa Ngugi unravels the Colonial m...
Fall: Justice for Sankara
Znet Article, October, 15 2007
Aziz Fall
Fall's ZSpace page
[Aziz Fall, Co-ordinator of the International Campaign for Justice for Sankara (ICJS) Interview by Koni Benson and Mukoma Wa Ngugi] President Thomas Sankara, affectionately referred to as Africa's Che Guevera was assassinated in Burkina Faso on ...
Ngugi: Thomas Sankara Lives!
Znet Article, October, 04 2007
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
In April this year, we celebrated 50 yrs of Ghana's Independence. In October, we are marking the 20th year since Thomas Sankara's assassination - a stark reminder that we are still in the state Odinga Oginga called Not Yet Uhuru. We will be re...
Ngugi: Farewell to Political Activism
Znet Article, August, 03 2007
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
We either value African life, understand a black life as equal to a white life and the poor as equally deserving as the wealthy - or we do not. This reformulation of Frantz Fanon's "a given society is either racist or not" or better yet of Malco...
Ngugi: Africa and Nuclear Weapons
Znet Article, July, 16 2007
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
Africa - Unite or Perish! Kwame Nkrumah might as well have been referring to the threat from the ever diversifying number of countries in the nuclear armaments race - India, Pakistan, China, North Korea and in the near horizon, Iran. To this lis...
Ngugi: Africa Uniting Less, Perishing More
Znet Article, June, 19 2007
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
When in 1946 Winston Churchill called for a United States of Europe, so soon after the World War II, many must have thought him still shell-shocked. Then it was unimaginable that a mere generation later there would be a European Union with a singl...
Ngugi: Activism and the Almighty Dollar
Znet Article, May, 11 2007
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
A few months into trying to organize the first Toward an Africa without Borders Conference in 2002 it suddenly hit me - Activism needs money, and for this particular conference, between keynotes and paper-clips we would need more than 30,000 dolla...
Ngugi: Africa does not need more Western philanthropy
Znet Article, April, 21 2007
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
Keep this question in mind: What good would it have done the world if Idi Amin had saved a drowning African child? In addition to providing raw materials, labor, and markets for finished products, Africa also cleanses the conscience of Africanis...
Ngugi: African Democracies for Sale
Znet Article, February, 07 2007
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
Some of the most important threats to democracy in Africa are the International Republican Institute (IRI), USAID and other international NGO’s that are directly funded by the United States Congress. These are US foreign policy institutio...
Ngugi: Africa and Latin America
Znet Article, September, 17 2006
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
Roots of Optimism and Contradictions The Berlin Wall is dismantled brick by brick in November of 1989. It becomes a symbol of freedom and new beginnings. A few months into 1990 the Soviet Union collapses and from its ruins a plethora of nations...
Ngugi: War, Silence and the Politics of Language
Znet Article, August, 09 2006
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
War on Silence (I) When they came for the Irish, Blacks and Jews Iremained silent. You see, I was yet to be born.And when it happened again I was too young and - waiting to go into college. Later when they jailed anti-war protestors, waiting t...
Ngugi: Fela Kuti
Znet Article, April, 16 2006
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
Arrest the Music! Fela and his Rebel Art and Politics by Tejumola Olaniyan. Indiana University Press, 2004. In 1977, Tejumola Olaniyan narrates, Nigerian soldiers armed with AK 47’s invaded a musical concert by Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. T...
Ngugi: Can Zimbabwe Become Africa's Cuba, Part 2
Znet Article, November, 04 2005
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
Back to Part 1 Which Way Out: ZANU PF, MDC or Moyo’s Third Way? If ZANU PF has been hurt by the state of the economy and US led sanctions, so has the MDC. The sanctions were called for by the MDC. However sanctions work when most of t...
Ngugi: Kenya
Znet Article, April, 24 2005
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir – “I Have A Dream†- Mart...
Ngugi: Conversing With Africa
Znet Article, November, 12 2003
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book is about? What is it trying to communicate? In Conversing with Africa: Politics of Change, I am trying to communicate the need of activists in Africa and elsewhere to restore a much needed radical dia...
Ngugi: Africa and the War on Terror
Znet Article, December, 09 2002
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
Introduction President Bush, as if to settle the debate once and for all over what form a terrorist exactly takes stated, “you are with ...
Ngugi: Elections in Kenya
Znet Article, October, 16 2002
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
In feudal Europe, every five or so years, a grand festival was held. Everyone was invited: the rich as well as the poor. For the powerful and the powerless, the rulers and their subjects, this was the day that expressed a universal fraternity of a...
