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...

Global War On Terror: A Case of Double Standards

The early January 2015 terror attacks in Paris, the French capital, elicited global uproar as individuals, organizations and national governments expressed repugnance at the...

A Review of Lugard’s Amalgamation Diplomacy

The ungovernable nature of the Nigerian state point to the abysmal failure of Lord Lugard’s amalgamation diplomacy, especially in the political sphere. The amalgamation was...

Robert Mugabe: Double Celebration At 91?

Last Saturday (February 21, 2015), President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, the oldest head of state on planet earth, turned 91. He has ruled Zimbabwe...

Is Robert Mugabe’s Fall Symbolic?

Not a few across the world are convinced that it has become completely impossible to feel any sympathy for President Robert Mugabe no matter...

The Obamaization of World Geo-politics and the Hillary Clinton Factor

A history of modern world geo-politics records President Barack Obama’s successes and human failures. He planned to be a path-finder for the New Age...

The More You Look the less you see: Chatham House 2015

I read with diligence and unmistakable pride, Buhari’s Chatham House speech. Two weeks ago, I listened with rapt attention to Jonathan’s lecture on “stealing...

American Gunboat Diplomacy and Global Security

If they want peace, nations must avoid the pin pricks that precede canon shots -Napoleon Bonaparte Relations between the United States of America (USA) and...

War on Terror: Time for a New Paradigm

What is the most effective strategy for fighting terrorism? Answers to this question have become more pertinent in the ugly face of the globalizing...

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Goodluck Jonathan: The Domestic and Global Implications of His US Visit

For the first time in many years, it seems as though the Nigerian community had a reason to be happy, to celebrate and to reaffirm their Nigerianness. For the first time in many years, it was nice being a Nigerian again...

Impact of Cultural Changes in Nigeria Politics

The new breed of rogue politicians exploited the goodness and kindness of Nigerians, and ran the country like ‘moolue bus’. They consolidated their grip on the power and resources of the country, and introduced a scare tactics to force a compromise on our integrity...

Is the Niger Delta Still Part Of Nigeria?

The dance of the absurd taking place in the...

Should We Not Begin To Re-Consider Election As Basis for Leadership Guide?

If it is true that Philosophy is supposed to...

Jonathan Doesn’t Know Poor Nigerians

If anybody wanted proof that Nigerian “leaders” do not occupy the same space and time as most of their country folk, President Goodluck Jonathan amply provided it in an astonishing speech he gave last week...

We Will Get There

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The Day I Heard The Voice Of God

I was in a sort of dream, a dream that was quite different from any type of dream I had ever had before. I heard a calm voice that said to me don’t let your mother go to the market this early...

Iran Gone Nuclear? Who Decides? Who is Afraid? Why?

There are those in this world who still believe that America's opposition to Iran's nuclear power ambition is altruistic and benevolent...

Jonathan’s Two Quiet Months

It’s one of the amazements of Nigerian life that the tumultuous events of last January seem now so terribly dim and faraway. But it was in January, two short months ago, that President Goodluck Jonathan incautiously increased the price of fuel...

The Niger Delta Disturbance: Militant Gangsters or a Military Gang-up?

In many African countries the wrong kinds have made it to leadership.  They seek power for their own aggrandizement rather than having a real understanding of the need to improve their countries or its people...