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...

The March of History in Africa

All thinking, critically thinking, persons know that since the beginning of time civilizations have come and gone. They know that Western civilization will one day end in accordance with the historical phenomenon of the rise and fall of civilizations...

Yasser Arafat: The Passing of a Statesman

What greater service is there than the service to one’s own people and to one's own land. Arafat accomplished both: he served his land and his people. He lived his life in the services of his land. Arafat gave wind to the wings of Palestine; he gave bounce to the political protests and rhythm to the Palestinian freedom songs...

Leadership Problems In Africa: In Search of A Solution

One of the problems we have always had as a continent is our unbridled belief that what the West sets as the criterion for excellence must be the universal criterion. Thus if the West says that democracy is the best form of government, we embrace democracy even though in actuality, what we practice is plain oligarchy and dictatorship...

Is The Land Of The Brave Safer Today?

Who can really argue today that Americans are not really scared about the possibility of another terrorist attack in America. Setting up the Department of Homeland Security, and giving it so much power and money to protect the heartland is one proof that both the Government and the people are scared to death...

Happy Birthday

When you are married like more than half the adults of the world are, and you live in this modern civilized society, you better remember two important dates: your spouse’s birthday, and, the wedding anniversary...

Iraq Sovereignty: A Questionable Liberation

Without rushing to judgment, it is important that we take stock of our success and failures as it relates to Iraq. Have we truly triumphed in Iraq? Have we gained a genesis of new enemies with an agony of defeat on our shoulders?

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Obama Confronts Obama and Obama Wrestles Obama

After eight years of the seemingly anti-intellectual presidency of Mr. George W. Bush, who governed with a sort of  moral certainty and inspiration from his gut instincts, we now have the professorial, contemplative, deliberative  Mr. Obama, a savvy-suave and over-analytical president who is on the verge of being afflicted with over-analysis paralysis...

All Hail King Nwankwo Kanu

At a time when most of the news headlines coming out of Nigeria are negative, it is heart warming to find one of our own creating positive headlines across the world...

Who Is Happy To Be Black?

If Black people have never been and are still not good enough in this 21st century to construct their own roads, airports, presidential villas, etc., or even to imagine exploring their own mineral resources, when will they ever be?

IBEDC: When will this pain be over?

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Moral Obligations Of Nigerians Abroad

Living in Europe and observing how “systems” and institutions work complementarily has made it impossible for some of us to think less about Nigeria. My few years exposure in Europe has infused a strange spirit of nationalism that it is foolhardy to start enumerating...

Death of the Poor Pontiff Pope Francis

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Religion and the Oneness of God

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Repeating the Mistakes that led to Biafra

One cannot successfully fight what happens to be the canvass of human perception. Prejudice in itself is not wrong or negative. It is neutral. But what is absolutely wrong is the arrogance of pejorative prejudice. This is where a particular strain of prejudice, arrogates itself the borrowed robes of absolute validity...