Makau Mutua

In my international law scholarship, I’ve denounced as racist and scandalous the international legal and economic orders. I have argued...

Nothing lasts forever. Especially dictatorships. Last week, Russian strongman Vladmir Putin found out he wasn’t invincible. Although I suspect that...

My late mother – may she rest in peace – had one cardinal rule about speech rights. This was it –...

Last week when I wrote my column on the ‘The Black Man’s Burden’, I wasn’t aware of the brazenly racist...

In 1899, Joseph Rudyard Kipling, the English imperialist poet, wrote the famous poem, ‘The White man’s Burden’. The poem is...

At birth, more boys than girls are born on our planet. Even though men have a lower life expectancy than...

Several indices tell you whether a country is on the path to people-centered holistic development. One of those is the...

Sudan is arguably the unluckiest country on the planet. Perhaps both unlucky and clearly damned. Not many countries have suffered...

Most folks grow up with certain hard-wired assumptions about the state. Omnipotent. Omnipresent. All-knowing. Cruel. Impenetrable. Permanent. The state is...

A failed state is one that is unable, or unwilling, to perform the basic functions of statehood. In the nomenclature...