The present Boom and Bust paradigm is not healthy for oil trade for it does not only discourage investment in the oil industry but also inhibits research and development in …
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Africa
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Until and unless the United States policy-makers realistically and coolly understand and accept the incorrigible nature of 12th century feudalist and anachronistic systems in those states they aspire to democratize, …
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The independent nation of Angola, a former Portuguese colony received, a good credit rating from Standard & Poor’s Fitch Ratings and Moody’s Investors Service that is commensurate with Nigeria, Lebanon …
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Almost a month after the massive explosion at an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in the American Gulf Coast, the massive oil spill, an environmental disaster and catastrophe, …
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As a matter of diversity and demographics which truly reflects America, it is well past time when an African American woman arrives at the hallowed halls of the US Supreme …
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The stories of municipal or private woes that have led to the worst financial crisis in decades in the West which led to rising debts, failing states like Greece and …
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This monumental environmental disaster is getting worse. It is fast spreading in expanse. Oil slick covering miles and miles of coastal waters in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening aquatic life, …
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It was with considerable agitation and extreme irritation that I read Henry Louis Gates’ pedestrian essay on slave trade and reparations, published in The New York Times…
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In the current campaign by the three leaders of the Labour, the Conservative and Liberal parties, the problem of immigration is a major issue…
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The most heart-warming event in US/Russia relations is their agreement to reduce the deadly nuclear weapons in their arsenal and work for arms control. However, the current efforts are not …
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ECOWAS to date has had diminutive successes and it has become a self serving community with Nigeria at the helm. The other fourteen member countries clearly have no political or …
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What is unfolding in South Africa is not quite different from how economic controls remain in white hands in post slavery Africa…
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It’s always deeply painful when Africa achieves another distinction in the wrong sector. This time, it’s in the foolish art of throwing money away!
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This work confirms the fact that an analysis of popular history as ‘recited’ in ‘grapevines’ by The People WorldWide is more accurate than what the United Nations, governments, academics and …
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All is not well in Eurozone and with its Euro due to the revelation that Greece, a member nation, is mired in a deficit beyond the stipulated benchmark by the …
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In this brief article, I address how the model of sociopolitical resistance adopted by the social movements associated with the World Social Forum operates within the African continent. By operating …