MUSINGS: Promises made and broken

As I sat at Mama B’s place thinking of what will happen after the next president settles at that colonial house at Magogoni, the cocktail I was sipping tasted bitter.

>The very educative and informative 5th World Bank (WB) Economic Update for Tanzania report was released on June 24. The 84-page report is titled ‘Who Wants a Job? The Magnetic Power of Cities’. Part One dwells on the state of the economy, including recent developments, short to medium-term prospects and the next challenge of creating jobs for faster and more equitable growth.

In times of election campaigns one wishes to see value-adding campaigns as opposed to personality-based campaigns that don’t make any sense at all. What the electorate wish, want and deserve to hear are issues that those vying for presidential, parliamentary and councillor positions would address and fix if elected.

At the 2012 London Olympics, before 80,000 roaring fans and a constellation of camera flashes, it took Oscar Pistorius 45.44 seconds to become a global icon.

Efforts by the Constituent Assembly (CA) interim chairman to resolve a stalemate over the voting system failed to bear fruit even after closed door meetings and consultations which ran in the dead of night.

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>After dominating the region for decades, with many seeing it as a success story, Kenya Airways (KQ) is in deep financial crisis, with reports from Nairobi suggesting that the airline may be broke.

Top Nigerian chess player Oladapo Adu has been stuck in Ivory Coast for 12 weeks after being unable to meet a connecting plane before lockdown began.

A new novel, Foreign Gods Inc., by the US-based Nigerian author and academic, Okey Ndibe, tells the tale of a Nigerian cab driver in New York who has fallen on hard times. The author spoke to BBC Africa's Peter Okwoche.