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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Civil Society Group Commiserates with Kwara State Flood Victims

Civil society group, Elites Network for Sustainable Development (ENetSuD),...

Nigeria’s National Independence Day Celebrations, New York 2005

After about ten years of attending Nigeria’s National Independence Day Parades in New York City, this year’s October 1st 2005 festivities were outstandingly the best yet!

The Two Categories of Nigerian Politicians

According to Bum Philips, the late American football coach:...

Jesus: Lover of our Souls

Man is apparently now even more helpless because what is like an escape route actually made man not only to see his deep helplessness to save himself but to know, as well, the seriousness of both his offense and the sentence it rightly attracted from the Hand of God...

And She Died In My Arms

My impromptu trip to Nigeria was an experience that will continue to linger in my mind. The news of my mom in comatose made me very unsettled and agitated...

The Ruler-for-Life Syndrome in the Third World and the Danger of a Protracted Conflict in Libya (2)

The purpose of this write up is to briefly explore the ruler-for-life syndrome among leaders of Third World countries and the issue of whether NATO’s military intervention in the Libyan civil war is contributing to the elongation of the conflict rather than shortening it...

Anyone for Christmas Chestnuts?

Shorn of its grisly spiritual sentiment, the celebration of Xmas has been an occasion to pamper our kids with all things merry: Xmas dress, shoes, bags, watches, books, DVDs, toys, Computer games and bicycles…

Barack Obama and Lewis Hamilton: Two Champions in Prospect

By some quirk of providential randomness, two men unrelated to each other, but united and defined by an uncommon sense of ambition and singularity of purpose will have their respective professional destinies determined within days of each other...

Nigeria and the MDGs: Beyond the question of funds

Over the years, Nigeria had acted as if achieving the Millennium Development Goals was solely the responsibility of the Federal Government through an instrumentality that barely possesses the required capacity...

Africa and the Pestilence of Imported Gods

How can a society hand over its head on a platter to a conqueror because he asked for it? How can a people yield their gods to be decapitated or burnt at the conqueror’s fires simply because the conqueror just showed up, knocked on the door and politely asked for that?