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...

Reserve Currency Supremacy: Why Euro Lost to Dollar

Being a carefully orchestrated dollar coup against the Euro, it is understandable why rather than Europeans celebrating, it's now Americans who are celebrating the euro crisis. Not by ordinary Americans and British, but by respected Washington insiders...

Now that Obama Has Spoken…

This September, the United Nations General Assembly will meet. It is time to return the UN to the path of strict application of international legal rules in the conduct of international affairs...

Sino-Japanese Territorial Dispute

Chinese diplomacy is firing on all engines in forcefully defending its territorial sovereignty and national integrity. The current Sino-Japanese dispute over the Diaoyu islands and rights over the territorial sea has taken on serious dimensions...

Before Obama Speaks

I start with the consideration that what happens in America should concern all of us since what happens in the world concerns America, according to Lady Clinton's doctrine...

The Assange Affair 2

I wish to add another footnote to the Assange Affair, on which I commented briefly in  an earlier  dispatch...

Lessons from the 2012 London Olympics and the Assange Affair

The success of the 2012 London Olympics is ineluctably linked with good organisation and the application of human intelligence at the highest level. There is evidence that there is no end to the ingenuity of men and women...

Hillary Clinton in Africa: Safari or Policy driven Trip?

If you have not heard, Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of States was in Senegal on her official 11-day African trip that will take her to Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and Ghana...

Reflections on Generations without a Future and Their Slide into Cultural Illiteracy

A generation has grown up in Europe in which a “feral underclass” is sliding into hate-based, racist-driven cultural illiteracy. As victims of cultural degeneracy, hooked on the hip-up mind-set, the young people of Europe are on down-ward slide...

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Jonathan’s Universe of the Turning Wheel: Riding on the Horn of a Unicorn

It was reported widely last month that General Yakubu Gowon said that he supported the pardon of some jailed Nigerian citizens...

Psychology of the Delta Rerun Election ‘Results’

There is much evident psychology behind the rigging of the last Delta rerun elections. So palpable almost everybody in Delta state and Nigeria, and very lately much of the rest of the world know it...

Deji Of Akure: A Post Mortem of The Winners and Losers

I honestly believe that one of the observations that separate or distinguish the developed countries and the Free World from the developing ones and those still in mental chains, is lack of documentation. If you don't know where you are coming from, you are not too likely to know where you are going!

Mobile Phones Efficacy: Do Nigerians Comply?

The mobile phone has become a part of a lot of Nigerian people’s lives, though it might still be a source of irritation, especially if you have to sit beside a continuously jabbering person on the bus for 30 minutes...

National Strike: Our Inconsistencies

After one week of mass protest, the “irreversible and irreducible” federal government has balked; the voice of the people which was misunderstood but not taken for granted has impacted the right notes with Mr. President...

My World Without Women!

A man's best friend is actually a woman even when he denies and refuses to admit. As loyal friends, they would not dump you even after they marry and would make you become their husband's friend so they can keep you forever as a friend...

It Does Not Matter What They Think About Us

It will always be safe to assume that whenever Nigeria or Africa pops up on any media screen, nine out of ten times it is for one bad news or the other. In fact, my country has mastered the act of snatching bad news from the mouths of good news...

Obasanjo as Babangida’s Best Issue

One sad tendency in Nigerian politics is the habit of arguing that one mediocre politician has a better record than another mediocre colleague...

Sustain the Aluta, Combat the Lies

In the next few days, our patience will be tested. This government and her sympathizers will begin to plant moles in our midst to create chaos and then kill the protesters. The idea is to discredit the movement...

A future wrecked by divorce

Tom Ugo is not his real name. He was 4 years old when his parents were divorced in 2012, because of what they said were their irreconcilable differences. Ugo did not go to school in the preceding year due to the quandaries that the divorce had degenerated into...