- By Mike Ssegawa As China’s influence in Uganda and Africa at large, grows, the Vice President of Uganda, Professor Gilbert Bukenya has advised his countrymen to learn to speak Chinese to remain competitive. The vice president who was launching the first Tianjin Trade Fair in Kampala said, learning Chinese would benefit the traders to effectively transact business without spending money on interpreters. He described China as a development model and he urged educationists to incorporate Chinese language in the school curriculum so as children grow up speaking the language. Mr Bukenya, a development minded politician, who has been behind the propagation of upland rice scheme through…

- By Mike Ssegawa South African Defence secretary, Mpumi Mpofu surprised many when she announced that her country would not send any troops to pacify Somalia. In a Cape Town press conference, BBC quoted her as saying, "The answer to Somalia is a simple 'No'." That statement was pregnant and it left many asking what happened to ANC revolutionaries? Let me say, this is the most ‘shocking’ statement from post South Africa since ANC took power in 1994. What happened to the spirit of Umkhonto we Sizwe ("Spear of the Nation"), the ANC revolutionary wing that vowed to fight injustice in all its forms on 16th December 1961? Ms Mpumi Mpofu’s words…