In farming there are certain principles that should never be violated if harvests are to be guaranteed. There should always be preparation, planting, tending the crops and finally gathering the harvest.

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Tafara Shumba

An ordinary citizen is naturally afraid of elections due to some skirmishes that usually characterise this process. It is the duty of the political leadership to instil confidence within the electorate and allay fears of political violence.

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, was born in Kenya, in 1938 into a large peasant family. He was educated at Kamandura, Manguu and Kinyogori primary schools; Alliance High School, all in Kenya; Makerere University College (then a campus of

Title: Africa Must Unite
Author: Kwame Nkrumah