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...

Libya: sand and storm

If I must die, I won't die alone; I die with many children and their mothers, pregnant with babies who never yet had a voice. I die with the aspirations to solve the problems of the world. I die with the songs passed down by generations gone...

The conspiracy theory –  Africa and the international politics

The turn of events in Africa with regards to imperialist manifestation hurts, to say the least. While Gaddafi has been waging a loner war against the international mafia organization and their puritan two-faced dealings in Africa, he too forgot that posterity never sleeps...

History 700, Attitude of the new mind – Africa Intelligentsia

In today's emerging democracies, Africans should learn from the mystery of the internet to correct their morality and journey backward-forward...

Agonies of a Global Villager

As global villagers, we can get information from and relate with people from all over the world in real time. Regardless of where we are, others get information about us too, the information they get is placed alongside with information from around the world and there lies the beginning of the agonies of the global villager...

Libya; Why Not Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, etc.?

In attacking Libya, western nations led by France, have argued that Moamar Gadaffi already has or is at the verge of massacring "his-own-people" as he repelled or took counter measures against legitimate uprising, rebellion and revolution against his more than 40 years dictatorship...

Revolution or revolt eruption?

The lesson for the youths, trade unions, labor unions, students unions, and other democratic associations in a repressed polity is to educate their members about the need to understand the basic revolutionary ingredients needed to change power from the hand of the few oppressive elite into the hands of people centered democrats...

The Last Man Standing

Libya is in crises. Saif al-Islam Ghaddafi is about his business - the obedient son of a sit tight dictator – defending his nation's honor and right to sovereignty. Out of the blue reports and as yet unproven, allege that Saif Ghaddafi plagiarized some parts of his doctoral thesis without attribution...

Laurent Gbagbo, a Stray Scapegoat in the Den of Lions

This piece is not an attempt to hold forte for Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast, nor to malign him either, but rather to bring to the attention of the world some salient international treachery against African leaders and in so many instances against third world countries...

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Another Telephone Conversation

You Africans value family. That's why you send money home. We love our own in the Bush family too, but we don't send money. We just rotate the American Presidency. And those that cannot wait for their turn, we give a state to govern…

Memos to APC its new chair

One of the things that I cannot do as a discourse analyst involved with public issues and policies is to focus unnecessarily on personalities or personal attributes of prominent people or their failings...

Is Nigeria A Terrorist Country Of Interest?

What did Nigeria do to find itself mentioned in the same sentence as "terrorism", and be blacklisted in the same illustrious company as Somalia, Afghanistan and Libya?

Going Home

Some call Nigeria hell. I call it home and I'll gladly go burn in it.

Calm Down Nigerians, It’s Only Four Years!

Early on Wednesday, February 27, 2019, by 4.40 am...

COVID-19 And Nigeria’s Pathetic Leadership Deficite

There is no better warning about the growing confusion...

Ndigbo: Time to Reengage

While I was reflecting on the current challenges facing...

My Baby Is Not Up For Adoption

How could you, Angelina Jolie? How could you? Was I not the one that told you the quickest way to get an ambassadorial position in the UN is to adopt a Somalian child?  Did my advice not lead to your hooking up with the white world’s sexiest man alive…how come you did not come to Nigeria to have your baby?

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 Nigerian Market Place

I recently watched an American football game in a large stadium filled with sport loving Americans. The excitement and passion I saw on everyone’s face strained me in trying to understand the game. The referee blew his whistle almost every 10 seconds...