Azad Essa comments on the escalating violence in Nigeria in the light of the recent massacre by the group carrying forward the message of Boko Haram. Little is known about the girl, except that she was no more than 10-years
I “We don’t really know what Ebola has done in the past, and we don’t know what it might do in the future.” —Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (December, 1994).
As the world assuages its discomfort through virtually expressed outrage… Azad Essa contextualises the long and complex story of Nigeria’s kidnapped schoolgirls. “The evil which men had attempted to exclude by confinement reappeared, to the horror of the public, in
For millions of South Africans, Nelson Mandela’s passing signalled the end of an era. Returning home to cover the story, journalist Azad Essa finds his countrymen looking a little lost, insecure of the future, even as they celebrate the life
Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide, the world – which largely ignored the carnage at the time – is gearing up to ‘commemorate’ it. But have we really learned anything or has this become yet another historical atrocity that we
Made a ‘nation’ from disparate pieces thrown together and kept together – barely – by the design and interests of outsiders, the Central African Republic’s colonial heritage of violence, much like its colonial master, keeps coming back in cycles… or
The colonial powers, with their need for ‘order’ and their Christian notions of sin, codified a distrust of homosexuality into formal laws on the African continent. Most such laws have continued postindependence and, in some cases, they’ve been augmented to