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...

Persistent Conflicts: Curse of a Continent II

The most destructive trade with Africa till date is the slave trade. Not only was the wickedness this trade represented in itself destructive, the social dislocation as well as the development gap that developed as a result of wanton destruction of the human resources of the continent as well as the willful plundering of a natural resources to develop foreign lands was a disservice to all mankind...

Persistent Conflicts: Curse of a Continent I

If anything can be determined as a permanent feature of living in or keeping up with Africa, it is the persistent cycle of wars, crisis and riots. Think about it, conflict was the major loophole the Europeans and Arabians exploited to take slaves to the Americas...

Judith Miller, A Woman of Character

 Judith Miller is in jail for upholding fine principles, and everyone in America is in some sorts of ear-piercing silence! Where is everybody? Why is there no agitation for Ms. Miller's release? Why is the controversy dead? Shouldn't we all demand the release of Ms Miller? Why are we not asking, "What Did Judith Miller Do?

Continental Africa, Pseudo-Democracies and the African Union

What should the international community do when oppressive leaders that have maintained themselves in power by rigged election, gangsterism, terror and corruption all in the name of democracy and anti-fundamentalism are removed from power by military force?

Third Slavery and Ways to Be Free

The first and most feasible option for African countries is sure as medicine but slow as death coming! It is simple- good governance, coupled with the strengthening of the democratic institutions of our blessed continent...

Niger: The Shame of a Continent

Niger is half the size of Texas but about twice the size of France. The country is bordered by Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Libya, Mali and Nigeria. Yet in times of dire need none of these countries came to her aid. None of the aforementioned countries came to her aid until children and women started dying and the nation was severely devastated. But of course that is the story of Africa...

Leadership and Development Problems in Africa: Responding to E. Terfa Ula-Lisa

Must a man or a nation or a continent that is beaten to the ground remain on the ground and wallow in self-pity?  Must we Africans use the injustices and the atrocities committed against us as an excuse for bad leadership?

Dicey Loops

As the world was celebrating the 'downfall' of the 'monster' of Baghdad, the news came that the invasion was a superfluous venture...like killing a fly with a sledgehammer...

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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?