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...

Laurent Gbagbo, the Miserable: Lessons  for Political Desperados

Happily, the ugly dramatic idiocy of Mr. Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast has tragically ended in his utter disgrace...

African dictators and logic of the ballot box

As I write this on Sunday, the results of Nigeria’s parliamentary election held on Saturday are streaming in. There is excitement in the newsroom the same way it is felt in all nooks and crannies of Nigeria. Change is here...

European Financial Seismic Wave

In the last ten years, there has been Euro-American national expenditure on wars, armament production, nuclear research, in pursuit of the democratization of ancient regimes around the globe...

The colonial pact – international robbers, France et al

It is funny how the world is viewing Africa from a distance, while African themselves aren't even considering the quagmire they are now in...

The 2011 London Conference on Libya: The International Community, minus Africa, Asia and Latin America

In the Era of the Gentiles, there will be attempts to attack the principle of order and intelligibility in the world. International relations will be subjected to universal unreason in order to distort human destiny...

Libya, Ghadaffi and The Fate Of A Tyrant-Leader!

Political power without the support of the people cannot endure. The Libyan strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, has carried out indiscriminate slaughter of his own people, just because they feel the game is up for him...

Is Africa Being Invaded?

No matter what has been going on in Libya, it was wrong for a Nation to back rebels and declare a no-fly-zone on another sovereign nation - Libya...

A Political Dream about a No-Fly Zone

Until the African Union sets up a mega information organ, misinformation, disinformation and lies, must continue to be the way information about African affairs will be dealt with by the Western media...

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Igbos of Delta State and Crisis of Identity (Part 1)

It is unfortunate that our crisis of identity extends to our own Igbo brothers and sisters across the Niger who are supposed to know better. Unfortunately, they regard themselves, as “the proper Igbos” while the Delta Igbos or Ika Igbos or Western Igbos are regarded derogatorily as “Hausa-Igbos”. ..

We Can Do Better

For over five decades, the Nigerian nation has been...

Okey Ndibe's Passport Seizure: A test of our predictable elasticity

My prior experience with the SSS predicted a termination of my self-imposed literary intermission. Not for the sake of furlough for furlough’s sake though. These political days make the graduation from scrawling to partaking, reckonable...

“Latitudinal” and “Longitudinal” Balderdash

When I write, like many patriotic Nigerians, it is to beam some light on some of the darkness in our polity, hoping that those in whom the power to effect changes reside might wake up to their responsibilities. Our society is the way it is because most of us do not ask questions of our leaders...

Dr. Femi Babalola on Obama, Abortion Gay Rights in America

I read with considerable irritation and consternation, "The flip side of Obama" an article by one Dr. Femi Babalola, on how his favorite political party in America, the Republican Party, lost the elections...

Keep The Fire Burning

Nothing moves until it is moved, nobody will naturally give you what rightfully belongs to you until you ask, human beings are naturally selfish, brutal and corrupt...

Are the Meek Inheriting The Earth in Nigeria?

In Nigeria today, the standard that established what is good or bad has been replaced by get-rich-quick syndrome – at all cost. These days, many Christians have abandoned the "Old churches" that have failed to adjust to the new trend of posterity teachings...

Gov. Orji’s New Crown

Abia has to be the most horribly ruled state in Nigeria today. Very sad! The present dispensation is a government of excuse. Even people who are not from Abia are not happy anytime they come to a place like Aba, because of the defamed image of the city caused by mis-governance...

OBJ and Atiku should be Impeached

If President Obasanjo wants us to believe that the man he chose to run on the same ticket with him for two consecutive elections, who he called his best friend and confidant for two elections, is a corrupt man, we have no choice but to believe him...

The Time Of The Gross Domestic Producers

That Nigeria has passed South Africa as Africa’s largest economy—when calculated by Gross Domestic Product—is almost old news.  The coverage of that feat afforded Nigeria’s image a rare shining moment in the foreign media...