Felix Kilonzo

Tweet Africa has been known for maintaining its century old cultures. The cultures that has been raising eye brows and causing friction between the western cultures.These cultures have been gradually introduced by the media and the social technological advancements that leads to erosion of moral values. As a result the traditions and myths find their way to the next clinch generation. Among the cultures that have been carried on from generation to generation include, marriage customs, burial rites and naming. Anything less is at best considered a creation of the west. Having many wives like the famous Akuku Danger is considered African and there is no problem with it. Its non African being gay often stoned or scorned to death in many parts of Africa. According to an Anglican evangelist based in Zambia, “the issues of discrimination and hatred spread at best at the inception of the statement that our culture as Africans, in regardless of our beliefs does not accept homosexuality”...

Sudan and their Southern counterparts need to move in and put their differences aside in the peace of the entire great lakes region. South Sudan walked in to independence with very many unsettled scores that ranged from the recent Heglig oil fields that ended with the withdrawal of the south. In 2011, the south Sudan voted for their cessation from the larger Sudan a move that was seen to bring peace in the region but it seems it’s far from being solved. In the comprehensive peace agreement CPA of 2005 that was signed by both Juba and Khartoum in Nairobi, the current territorial borders were not to be demarcated but the Abyei region has persisted to be a source of conflict. During the International conference on the great lakes region of Africa ICGLR, leaders from the 10 member state region called upon Sudan who is also a member of the body to respect the independence of their southern counterparts. The question that the leaders of both Sudan and south Sudan need to a...