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...

Germany In World Economy

Western economic theory is part and parcel of Western socio-cultural tradition. Its entire style of discourse seems to be changing...

South African Secret Laws: A Clear Hop, Step and Jump into Fascism and other Woes in the World

This engagement with the analysis of the woes of the world was the result of the energy unleashed at 11am on the eleventh day of the 11th month of this year, 2011...

Aid to Africa and UK’s gunboat diplomacy

Being a distressed continent in terms of marked improvement in all areas of human development, it would be recalled that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in 2001, accordingly had described Africa as a “scar on the conscience of the world”...

Lessons and reflections on Rome

Just some few days ago, the Italian political capital, Rome, once again became capital of world for those obsessed or even merely interested in world politics. The occasion, for the very few that may have missed it, was the fall of the Silvio Berlusconi government...

NTC: The time bomb!

The diminuendo of the ousting and death of Muammar Gaddafi came with the bombshell dropped by Mustafa Abdel Jalil in his inaugural speech, where he claimed Libya for sharia law, a law which had been jettisoned by the erstwhile government, and the immediate lift of ban on polygamy, as if that was the motive for staging this rebellion in the first place...

The Commonwealth: Its Diplomatic Relevance or Irrelevance; Kaddafi Vs NATO

The name Commonwealth was cleverly used to give the impression that the wealth of members was common to all. This was false and it is still false...

Africa as part of an invisible empire

Economies under invisible empire are ruinously and continuously undermined by systematically moving the economy from one form of fiscal crisis to another, with the intent to perpetuate underdevelopment and dependency on Western financial institutions...

Who Can Save Africa?

Just like any great people at a historic juncture, Africans today are crying out for leadership. They are looking for a messiah to show them the way, a messiah endowed with the power to ignite their passion and inspire the best in them...

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Before Buhari returns from Beijing!

Nigeria is gradually morphing her way out of being...

To Our Representatives and Other Misrepresentatives

Since 1999 when Nigeria supposedly returned to democratic rule, the representatives at all levels - federal, state, and local governments, have been more of rubber stamps in the hands of the executive arm to perpetrate their acts...

What If Christians Are Right? A Question Worth Pondering

Imagine standing at the threshold of eternity, confronted by...

Insecurity: Again, how did we get to this pass? (1)

The roots of the current crisis stretch deep into...

A Witness to these Times…Conversation with Akin Adesokan (2)

"My writing is an attempt to bear an honest witness to my time, to the experience I have as a human being, as a Nigerian, as an African. The African experience – slavery, wars, colonialism, diseases, neo-colonialism..." - Akin Adesokan

NGF: Can This Economic System Be The Best?

Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State is revealing something new to us. His clamour for more funds for the states in the name of reviewing the Revenue Sharing Formula is like a cry of a family man raising his family without any budget...

Ojukaye Accuses Wike of embarking on vain glory by commissioning Obiri Ikwerri – Airport Road

The Rivers State Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC,...

Hooray for democracy! Hooray Nigerians! But…

In all my adult life, there have been precious few incidents that have made Nigerians from all walks of life unite in celebration and joy...

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...

Nigeria @ 50: Why We Are Getting It Wrong!

Though I will be marking the golden jubilee independence anniversary soberly in my station outside the shores of the abused fatherland, it is with patriotic pride that I will be celebrating with some good friends...