Mabeny Malath is shocked after hearing the story of Kamilat Mehdi, a young woman who was disfigured by a stalker's acid attack in Ethiopia.

This is a shame to Africa as a whole, not just Ethiopia. It is an indication that women are still being looked at as second class citizens. It's a shame to our beloved continent.

The person who attacked Kamilat must be brought to justice and punished.

I am sorry dear Kamilat. God bless you.

Thursday 29th March

Elvis Walla from Juba in Southern Sudan focuses his attention on the current South African Development Community talks in Tanzania which brings together leaders of 14 Southern African countries

The on going talks in Tanzania for SADC are being dominated by the current political developments in Zimbabwe, but Mugabe has constantly turned a deaf ear to the international community.

Whether the world bodies want it or not, Mugabe will continue to be President of Zimbabwe.

Force must be applied to remove people like Robert Mugabe otherwise there will never be peace in African countries run by useless presidents.

Wednesday 28th March

Peter Bassey in Calabar, Nigeria is unhappy with the protester who interrupted a church service to mark the 200th anniversary of the act to abolish the slave trade in Britain.

I honestly cannot see the point of the protester at Westminster who disrupted the church service commemoration 200 years of the end of slavery.

If his grouse was that slavery was evil, then was he not witnessing an act of admission by the British public in holding the church service at all? Has he considered that the British were not the only people to trade in Africans? Has he even recalled that the British were the first to abolish the trade?

Please, let our African brethren realise that the freedom of expression found in the UK is not an invitation to abuse it. The solemn service in honour of the many victims of that abhorent trade was desecrated when that protester marched in. His riotous behaviour did not honour, but rather insulted, their memory.

Tuesday 27th March

Israel Ambe Ayongwa in Bamenda, Cameroon, shares his thoughts on the question of slave-trade reparations.

Africa needs more than words that evoke pathos and sympathy. Guilt is something that I want to apportion and hand a big chunk of to the merchantile interest of western consortiums.

Today, I think our continent needs to move forward and the best thing that can be offered by those in whose favour the balance of power is tilted, which happens to be Europe and America, is justice.

I want to see those walls of unfair trade practices torn down and a level playing field spread for all. I want an end to this indiscriminate brain-drain that ekes all the very best of our talent, leaving us with chaff that constitutes the demagogues called leaders today.

These are all the reparations I want paid to Africa

Monday 26th March

Andrei Prychodko in South Carolina, USA, wants to remind us all that slave trading continues in Africa, but this time it's Africans doing both the selling AND the buying.

Slavery is going on at this very moment on a wide scale in Sudan and some other African countries.

The going rate to buy freedom for a slave is well under a hundred dollars per person. Today, there are Christian organisations buying these slaves' freedom.

Any reparations from the Church of England and others could be used in a similar manner - to buy the freedom of all present day slaves in Africa and help them integrate into a free society. This would cost a pittance and change countless lives.