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...

Who Wants to Fight for God?

Many commentators have sought to characterize this as some extraordinary clash of cultures or civilization, but they are simply incorrect. In fact, I doubt if both ends of the debate are civilized because respect and tolerance are cornerstones of civilized people...

Caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad

Press freedom must be exercised with a great sense of responsibility. Media freedom cannot be limitless or irresponsibly exercised...

Covert Action Against American Citizens

America owes an obligation to the world to get to the bottom of this investigation, if as the leading nation in the world, it does not want to offer a permanent alibi to African and third world dictators to now argue that they only break the Law to protect their own people...

France is (In) a State of Denial

The days of anarchy in France finally came to an end after more than two weeks of street rioting precipitated by the fatal electrocution of two young African immigrants supposedly pursued by the police...

Mr. Weah, Do You Love Your Country?

Believe me Mr. Weah; you have every right to question the integrity of this election and every right to seek a re-run or a recount. But Mr. Al Gore had the same right, Mr. Churchill had the same right and yes you join these great men as a loser..

How Much Is Your Life Worth?

Americans treat their dogs and cats better than the Nigerian government treat her people. In Nigeria, the vast majority of people do not have access to well-balanced meal, to the courts, to health and life insurance, and to medical care. Most have never been to the dentist. Never! Dogs and cats in the US have it made; while Nigerians have a life made in hell...

Africans and the White House: Friends, Partners or Fools

When a typical African Head of State or Head of Government come to the US, a low-level officer from the State Department receives him or her. The White House doesn’t even consider African countries partners. We do not fall within America’s strategic interest...

Nigerian and American National Security

The Americans have showed Nigerians and the rest of the world in their dealings with a Chinese oil company, that American oil companies represent American national interests and we, as Nigerians, must be awake to our national security interests as well!

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Nigerian Men and their Foreign Wives

Culturally, Nigerian men are overbearing, controlling, and paternalistic.  They relate to their fathers and mothers differently. They believe it is “a man’s world” and so they have the tendency to relegate women to subservient roles. I am stunned by the transformation Nigerian men, married to non-Nigerian women, have gone through in the United States...

Is Genevieve Nnaji Nigeria’s First Movie Superstar?

What is this Nnaji mystique that has her audience colliding heads so joyfully, crawling, craving some time in her sun? Star quality is what it is. The amount of talent dripping from her little finger is more than many of our other female leading ladies have combined...

Why Do African Men Go Home to Marry?

The African male is perplexing. He can be enigmatic. He can be everything and sometimes, nothing. He can be sweet and loving and caring and benevolent and at the same time oppressive. His life is full of contradictions. In so many ways, he is a wounded animal as a result of his historical past...

Mobil’s Oily Battle Over Intellectual Property Rights

The eight-year long battle between Commandclem Nigeria Limited and Mobil Producing Nigeria Limited, over ownership of patent and intellectual rights to a chemical invention for offshore drilling seems in sight…

Lost in a Sea of Hair Weaves

One can understand some black women wearing wigs for the same reasons that some white women do; because they are losing or have lost their hair. One can even make allowances for wigs being worn for the occasional change of look. But how to explain young women with full heads of hair who will never be seen dead with their natural hair?