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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President Jonathan’s Legacy: A Lesson For Posterity

In the area of corruption, this administration has become the most corrupt and inept leadership since the military era. Many professional political praise singers are quick to argue that the president alone cannot tackle corruption...

Amina, Sambisa, and the Parable of a Wobbly Nigeria

A peculiarly Nigerian type of frenzy happened last week....

Asaba: The Sexual Predators' Paradise!

I hereby challenge the sexual predators in the Delta State capital to debunk the veracity of these abominable sexual escapades of theirs and I will not hesitate to publish more damaging details and their photographs in my possession...

Male and Female He Created Them. And So, What’s Gender Got To Do With It?

As more women are educated and allowed to serve, we have seen them excel in their chosen careers and occupations. Women have served in the highest political and diplomatic offices all around the world...

Lingering Issues In Achebe’s Female Characterisation

Whatever perceived differences in the various female characters created by Achebe are a function of the prevailing realities in the different settings and periods that produced them, and Achebe’s ability to record those realties so accurately should not be construed to mean that he also “celebrates” them...

Nigerian Schools Are Getting Worse

In the opinion of several eloquent writers, the Nigerian government is to be blamed for the deplorable state of the state schools. We often mention the dilapidated buildings, incessant teacher strikes and several other popular excuses...

Gov. Amaechi and the Benefits In APC

No matter how the PDP prides and tell Nigerians and by extension the world, that these persons who left the party do not hinder the progress of the party, it is covering its face in
humiliation...

The Perils of IVF and Surrogate Motherhood

Attention to IVF must not be allowed to foreclose other options open to combat infertility that would not turn the human origin to subject of vulgar determinism. Human life is still sacred. The basis of IVF, surrogate motherhood and sundry practices is allergic to morality...

Gill Marcus: Monetary policy, Inflation and Economic growth in South Africa

The Governor of the Central bank of South Africa, Gill Marcus, has proven herself a pragmatic free market banker...

Chained

A grasshopper that is roasting over fire and claiming to be emitting fat will soon realize that a snail that swallows another will have two legs...