Nanjala Nyabola

But there are more im­por­tant con­ver­sa­tions to be had than hand­wring­ing over the pos­si­ble demise of a pri­vate com­pa­ny.

This year has shown that gov­er­nance guid­ed only by ide­ol­o­gy with­out any con­cern for moral out­comes is dan­ger­ous.

The Face­book out­age and rev­e­la­tions should be a wake-up call not just for the US but the rest of the world as well.

Do­mes­tic fail­ures in them­selves do not ex­plain the glob­al in­equal­i­ty of out­comes when it comes to vac­cines.

Reg­u­la­tion on so­cial me­dia should not be es­tab­lished only with US in­ter­ests in mind.

Vi­o­lent­ly im­posed lock­downs will not be ef­fec­tive and will do more dam­age than good.

And it ought to look to Asia, not North Amer­i­ca or Eu­rope, for the tem­plate for how to han­dle it.

The lat­est Cam­bridge An­a­lyt­i­ca leaks show just how com­pro­mised vot­ing – one of the pil­lars of democ­ra­cy – has be­come.

Vi­o­lence against for­eign­ers has much to do with South Africa’s fail­ure to ad­dress the ur­ban lega­cy of apartheid.

Toni Mor­ri­son was and for­ev­er will be an in­spi­ra­tion for those who seek to set their imag­i­na­tion free.