The International Criminal Court indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is perhaps the biggest news out of Africa this year. The Sudanese President is the first sitting head of state ever charged with genocide. Is there more to this indictment? Find out and join the debate on AfricanLoft.

An Egyptian Army General and security expert thinks so. Zeinobia write via Egyptian Chronicles:

“General Fouad Alam , a living legend in the Egyptian Security…had his two cents about the terrible act that changed the course of history. He is totally convinced that 9/11 is not the handmade of Al-Qaida , it is beyond their capabilities [...]

From Ask This Black Woman:Black vs African-American: Capital “B” Please!
In the Black vs. African-American debate, I think it makes more sense to use Black because the term “African-American” connotes the political experience of native-born Black people who’ve descended from West African slaves in the US, while “Black” is more general and embracing of the diversity [...]

James Shikwati editor of African Executive opines on the relevance of local entrepreneurship in national building and unity. Using the burgeoning success of mobile telephony business in Kenya, he muses:
The recent announcement about Safaricom’s historic profit of Ksh 17 billion left me wondering whether those who paid for this service were simply communicating with their [...]

“I admire efforts for pan Africanism I think with the 53 countries with their varied cultural, ethnic and politic differences stretching for years to the present day, this would be no mean feat. The countries and cultures of Africa are far too different. Even with my recent trip to Tanzania I picked up regional [...]

An Op-ed in the Justice Africa blog takes on the issue of creating a United States of Africa, which will be discussed in the forthcoming summit of the African Union in Accra, Ghana.
The agenda has pitched leaders against leaders and different sectors of our informed and ill-informed publics against one another. But basically [...]

Last two weeks, I caught a taxi at the Tetteh-Quarshie interchange, which was going towards the Spintex Road. In it were two other men, and one woman who looked like a market lady. It was clear from the woman’s attire that she was working class–it was a very paled dress–and she was crudely chewing gum. [...]

Is South Africa Living Up to Its Responsibility as Africa’s Leader?
Discussants:

Francis Kornegay
Tom Wheeler

South Africa, the African continent’s richest country, is also its most influential. President Thabo Mbeki mediated conflicts in Burundi and Congo, and propelled the creation of the African Union and the New Partnership for Africa ’s Development. Yet South Africa has come under [...]