Africa

World Cup Tragedy Of South Africa

The urge in the beginning had been to entitle this piece “The Death of African Solidarity”. It took no time at all for me to...

South Africa: We Are All Victims

South Africa has pursued post-apartheid policies, the consequences of which we are seeing today. The country has a terrifying, soft underbelly which is now...

Manufacturers of Coups and Bandits   

Coups and bandits are all the rage these days. Just the other day, December 7 to be exact, there was the hot news that soldiers...

In Support of Iran’s Nuclear Ambition

If Iraq wants to go nuclear, she ought to be able to do so since every state has the right to safeguard her national interest. Why did the United States not attack the Soviet Union or vice versa during the Cold War? Every state knows the consequence of attacking another state with nuclear weapons...

Images from and about Africans

Images from and about Africa and Africans can be gruesome and demoralizing. The western press paint a picture of a continent and a people that are incapable of governing themselves, incapable of self-sustenance, and incapable of providing the most basic of all basics without western help...

Images From And About Africans: A Response to Sabella Abidde

It has become exceedingly easy, sexy and even entertaining to be extremely critical of the African continent and its travails...

Images From And About Africans: A Response to Sabella Abidde

It has become exceedingly easy, sexy and even entertaining to be extremely critical of the African continent and its travails...

Terrorists…Insurgents…The Middle East

Various scholars have noted that it is very easy to start a war; but very difficult to end it. Wars are messy and expensive and usually have unintended consequences. In the final analysis therefore, diplomatic and political arrangements are far better...

Globalization And The Emerging Consensus In Geo Politics

I feel perplexed as to why George Bush is still as popular as he is with his conservative base despite his flawed policies...

The Darfur Peace Deal

At the bottom of the crisis in Darfur is famine and devastation. The sooner the region is placed on the path of sustained development, the sooner the parties would see the good in peace...

Struggling To Die

On a tiny bed of the clean but crowded children's ward in a Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, a tiny, staring child lies dying. She is three and has hardly known a day of good health. Now her skin wrinkles around her body like an oversize suit...

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Condoms, HIV/AIDS And You!

Following my article published here entitled, "Nigeria's Last Virgins", Dr. Anthony Odoh, a Nigerian physician in Spain, sent me this very illuminating paper...

Kim Jong 1l dies: the Juche ideology lives

Koreans are a great nation and a great people who, had they not been separated since the 1950's, would have been as developed as Japan, if not more...

For God Loves a Cheerful Giver

Envy is toxic. There are things I love about...

Nigeria 2015: Presidential Elections and Beyond

The need for a “new modern, united and prosperous...

Now 36 Years Old, Am I The Last Nigerian Virgin?

Though I am certain of receiving instant forgiveness and mercy from God if for any reason I engage in premarital sex or extra-marital sex any day, I am however not at liberty to do as my heart so wishes…

Single six-year term is another joke

The plan to introduce a single six-year term for the offices of the President and Governors is another joke being conceived to further confuse the masses. Such plan is anti-democratic, regressive, defeatist, and will worsen corruption...

Kalu and (Un)known Gunmen

It was sad to note that gunmen attacked Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu recently, at his hometown of Igbere, Abia State. They showed their shameful act by shooting sporadically at a bus being piloted by one of his aides. Did they think that Kalu was on the bus?

The Rape of Innocence…

Since we don't have the jurisdiction to summon God to a human court to answer to charges of neglect, of atrocities committed against humanity by fellow humans, what should an individual who has lost his/her innocence do to live right again...

The Nigerian Electorate And The Question Of Leadership

The days of grand ideas are long gone. In the current political climate, all you need is a sack full of money or a lorry load of vagabonds to intimidate your opponents...

International Seminar on the Future of Africa the New World Economic Order

The Seminar recommended that courses in International Law and Diplomacy should be held  at the Bradford Initiative Seminar Room, to  prepare University students for rigorous academic pursuit...