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...

Semantic Denigrations of African States: Wake up Africa!

When individuals and states denigrate, perjure and maltreat other individuals and states in wicked ways, they forget that there is a future, which they...

The Preventable Accra Flood and Explosion

The explosion and subsequent inferno that consumed roughly 150 Ghanaians on the evening of 3rd June were preventable calamities. The blame for this should...

That Amnesty International Report on Nigeria

It was a damning report, a disturbing report. As a human rights organization, Amnesty International often raises issues concerning human rights violations in the...

Is Africa Fated To Be A Metaphor Of Disaster?

In May 2000, the British Broadcasting Corporation asked me to contribute an online opinion piece that would x-ray the prospects for socio-economic progress on...

United Nations Convention on Corruption: A Legal Review

All legal systems that operate in Sovereign states address the subjects of stealing and corruption. In Plato’s Statesman and Laws, he reflected learnedly on...

Xenophobia and the Imperativeness of Nipping the Growth of a Monster in the Bud

One of the things I have learnt, first as a student of literature, and then as a literary critic, is that incidents (especially those...

On Countering Terrorism in Nigeria

It is no longer news that the Nigerian State is at war with terror. The conundrum of violence the Nigerian state has been forced...

Xi Xingpinocracy and the New China

The  grooms its leaders in all fields very carefully. The Party has cordial relations with the other eight non-Communist parties in China. The election process...

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Hello! Be Wise As The Campaigns Begin

Barring any divine intervention, and never ruling out the...

Ben Okri: A Rousing Bard

Ben Okri is one of those extant writers who aim to and do rouse social consciousness, impart knowledge; one of those writers whose work is of cosmic proportion...

Agbani Darego and the fallacies of Uche Nworah

Men encouraged women, or at the very least, acquiesced to whatever indecent behavior we may associate with women. And in some cases, men forced women to engage in indecency. Men, we all know, are the repository for licentiousness...

Hurricane Katrina: A Third World Response Under An Inept Leadership

FEMA failed because it has a very weak leadership, unqualified personnel and a system that is grossly incompetent.  I weep for a system that ignores ability, knowledge, and competency, solely for political reward.  The system failed.  The president failed. Condoleeza Rice failed...

Why the Government May Be Wrong on The New ‘Minimum’ Wage

No one will dispute that our workers deserve decent wages that will guarantee social self-reproduction without recourse to moonlighting, bribery and corruption or primitive accumulation...

Creation, True Science versus Evolution (1): True Science affirms Bible

Indeed, all the conclusions of science between 600 BC and 200 AD – regarded as the first age of science – that are still relevant today agree with scriptures.  And between the early Egyptians and Babylonians the abiding feats reached in mathematics, metallurgy, anatomy and astronomy stay in tandem with the laws of creation...

Fuel Price Hike: Nigerians Cannot Be the Only Ones Paying the Price (1)

The latest increase in the pump price of petrol...

Imprudent Heifers

I cannot count how many times I have heard Nigerian men complaining about how Nigerian women have suddenly become “smart” because they have left Nigeria.  While some of what they say is only due to their inability to handle a little independence in favor of the woman, the rest of what they say is actually true...

Still On Nigeria’s Railway History – “Narrow Gauge In Nigeria”

Once, shortly after our independence from Great Britain, the whole world believed, and were never in doubt that, Nigeria was going to be a great, if not the greatest African nation in the world...

Development; Why Have You Eluded Us?

Why is it that our contemporaries are well ahead of us in all indices of development? Are we really making progress in Nigeria? Why has development eluded us? What did we do wrong? What are we doing wrong?