Wednesday-Night

If there’s anything going on in the world besides Super Tuesday, it’s hard to discern it in the media, whether U.S. or foreign based. We cannot recollect such intense excitement over primaries and admit to obsessing about the latest pronouncement from Wolf, Brian, Charlie (Gibson or Rose), Tim, not to mention all those wonderful political […]

January 10, 2008
We are extremely grateful to our friend Philip Osano for his lucid and detailed personal observations on the background to the situation in Kenya and the outlook for the future. The media seems to be catching up with some of his points, but does not generally supply the public with adequate historical background. […]

2 January 2008
Oh Come all Ye Faithful
Pedant and Insightful
Oh Come Ye, Oh Come Ye to Wednesday Night.
Come and be clever, on your fav’rite subject
Come comment on the world scene, oh, come share the news you hear
Come comment on the world scene , come allay our fear.
We had planned for a lighthearted look at […]

As we worry about the outcome of the elections in Kenya and the resultant riots, the undermining of democracy and prospects for tribal warfare, the controversy over urban encroachment on Nairobi National Park goes virtually unremarked. Yet, it deserves attention as it is symbolic of the tensions between conservation and poverty alleviation.

KITENGELA, […]

The amazing Oscar Petersen 15 August 1925 - 23 December 2007
is mourned around the world.
The last Wednesday Night of 2007 falls on Boxing Day - a frenetic commercial activity that is a horrid distortion of a medieval charitable custom. We believe that a return […]

Will Kenyan election cap a dismal year for Africa, or show the way?
By CHARLES ONYANGO -OBBO
In the end, it was not to be but […]

31 October 2007
Hobgoblins, bats, black cats and jack o’ lanterns may not be present, (depending on your views of the other habitués of Wednesday Night) but there will be a steaming brew of stimulating thought in the company of David Kilgour, Kimon Valaskakis, Hans Black, and Beryl […]

The Achievement in African Leadership award has been won by a statesman who knew when to give up power.
By Claire Soares
23 October 2007
 
 
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A Song for Africa
Curtin documentary wins prize
Last week, Montreal filmmaker John Curtin won the Canadian International Development Agency’s Deborah Fletcher prize for his documentary A Song for Africa.
Following the screening of the film at the Ex-Centris media centre on St. Lawrence Blvd., a solid crowd of people lined up to congratulate the filmmaker.
“Lord, it’s […]

By Morton Abramowitz, Jonathan Kolieb
Frustrated by the West’s failure to halt the slaughter in Sudan, Darfur advocacy groups are pinning their hopes on a country they see as genocide’s enabler in chief: China. But in pressuring an indifferent Beijing, activists are merely helping Western governments evade responsibility for a humanitarian crisis that they could […]