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...

Other American Political Parties: Democracy and Constitutionalism in the U.S.

Yes, there are other American political parties and political organizations. There are the Justice Party, the Green Party, the Libertarian Party, and even the Communist Party exists in America. Some parties are no more in existence for one reason or the other...

Revolutions do overtake Revolutions: Libya One Year After

Revolutions come about when massive discontent, social dislocation and agonizing social conditions become intolerable. This type of revolution occurred in France, America, Russia, China and  in some African nations...

The State of World Cultures: Reflections on US Presidential Elections 2012

There is something at once banal and irritating in the analysis of the presidential debates in America, where form is rated higher than substance. What have smiles, belligerent mien and fast-talking got to do with reasoned judgments and logical argumentations?

The Future of the Developing World In 2050

Africa has become a jam-packed place for the West to dump its dangerous ammunitions. The West has also found an ugly trade in toxic waste in Africa...

Mitt Romney Policy on Africa Needs Specificity

The contemporary Africa is not your grandfather’s Africa.  Many countries in Africa including Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya and others are now classified as emerging economies. While the rest of world are mired in recession and anemic economic growth, Africa economy has been growing...

United Nations: The Failure of Man-made gods

What God has promised to do on earth since Creation, He has dutifully been doing and HE will continue to do, till time indefinite. The man-made gods of earth, politicians, bankers, false prophets, seers, witches and wizards, occultists, magicians, evil men, war-mongers have proved incapable of creating the atmosphere for abundant life on earth...

The ignorance of faithless believers

Which subtler way to put the recent display of violent demonstrations in parts of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan and now northern Nigeria, which was characterised by burning of flags and pictures, and even leading to the killing of people in some cases, over a stupid obnoxious video clip?

The Era of Negativism

The press is now immersed in photographing men and women in order to expose their nudity. The serpents of illusions are crawling over the world...

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Folashade, Feyisara Laniyan: A Painful Earthly Loss, A Monumental Heavenly Gain

’Shade, now you have departed, who shall set the pace for me?  Now you have been translated to glory who shall challenge me? I wonder, I do wonder...

Is Africa a Latecomer to Christianity?

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge -Hosea...

Armchair Trotskys (2)

There is nothing more pathetic than a critical mob; gangs of columnists, journalists, hatchet writers and career critics may stir up strife but their efforts eventually pass like the hum of mosquitoes seeking to make a noise like thunder...

Big Brother Naija Sees All Sorts

Big Brother Naija, BBNaija for short, is one television...

Yar'adua's Costly Lagos Adventure

For those who parroted the sincere commitment of Umaru Yar'Adua to the rule of law, it is becoming obvious that the man and his government are more interested in how such empty sloganeering aids their political interests...

President Trump’s Parable: The War of Interest

The recent statement from the President of the United...

Fulani Herdsmen: A Road Not Taken

The title of this piece, “Road Not Taken” was...

The Ordeal Of Blacks And Nigerians In Russia

There was a time when the Nigerian embassy told the Russian law enforcement authority that it did not desire to be informed about any Nigerian arrested for drug trafficking or any other crime, and that the Russian authority was free to take any action it thought fit against Nigerians to teach them some lessons...

Lee Evans must not die – appeal to the US Government

Mr. Lee Edward Evans is dying. Yet, he must not...