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...

Africa At A Crossroads: From Resource Dependence To Industrial Powerhouse

If you haven’t listened to Dr. Akinwumi Adesina’s recent interview with Rufai Oseni on Arise TV, you are missing out on one of the...

USAID, Corruption, And Africa’s Aid Trap: Time To Cut The Strings!

For decades, billions of dollars in foreign aid have poured into Africa, yet the continent remains shackled by poverty, underdevelopment, and economic stagnation. The...

Ghana’s Democratic Beacon: Mahama’s Victory and the Maturity of a Nation

Ghana’s recent presidential election has sent a powerful message to the rest of Africa and the world: that democracy can thrive even in the...

Lessons from Ghana

Nigeria's self-proclaimed status as the 'Giant of Africa' is being questioned once again, and a recent example from Ghana highlights this reality. The ruling...

A Democratic Revolution in West Africa: What Ghana’s Elections Mean for Nigeria

Former Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama has achieved an extraordinary political comeback, winning the nation’s presidential election after his opponent, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia,...

The Baltasar Endonga Saga: A Disturbing Insight into Abuse of Power and Public Trust

A recent scandal involving prominent Equatorial Guinean official Baltasar Ebang Engonga has sent shockwaves through the country and beyond, raising questions about accountability, ethics,...

UN-Nairobi Civil Society Conference 2024, Outcomes and Prospects

By Kelly Ovie Umukoro In the heart of Nairobi, Kenya, stakeholders from around the world converged for the annual United Nations Civil Society Conference. Over...

Challenges of the Presidential System of Government

This is a long essay on the challenges of the Presidential System of Government in general, how it is constituted in Nigeria, and why...

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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?