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...

American Oil Spillage Environmental Racism; A Case Of Permanent Double Standards

This monumental environmental disaster is getting worse. It is fast spreading in expanse. Oil slick covering miles and miles of coastal waters in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening aquatic life, particularly in the coastal waters of Louisiana...

Ending The Slavery Blame Game By Henry Louis Gates: A Rejoinder

It was with considerable agitation and extreme irritation that I read Henry Louis Gates' pedestrian essay on slave trade and reparations, published in The New York Times...

British Politics in Top Gear

In the current campaign by the three leaders of the Labour, the Conservative and Liberal parties, the problem of immigration is a major issue...

Global Security In The Era Of The Gentiles

The most heart-warming event in US/Russia relations is their agreement to reduce the deadly  nuclear weapons in their arsenal  and work for arms control. However, the current efforts are not good enough...

ECOWAS Is Toothless

ECOWAS to date has had diminutive successes and it has become a self serving community with Nigeria at the helm. The other fourteen member countries clearly have no political or economic clout...

Kill The Boer! So What If A White Racist Is Killed?

What is unfolding in South Africa is not quite different from how economic controls remain in white hands in post slavery Africa...

The art of throwing money away

It’s always deeply painful when Africa achieves another distinction in the wrong sector. This time, it’s in the foolish art of throwing money away!

Postmodernism in Africa: The Utopic and Dystopic Mix in Myopic Humanism, Fascism and Stupidity

This work confirms the fact that an analysis of popular history as ‘recited’ in ‘grapevines’ by The People WorldWide is more accurate than what the United Nations, governments, academics and writers tell you...

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The Egwu Onwa Concert of Ichoku Academy

The trailblazing minstrel, folk music collector and performer, Gerald...

The Gospel of Materialism – Nigerian Pentecostalism and Hypocrisy

Our Christian men of God today have contributed in no small ways to the social upheaval the Nigerian nation is going through at the present moment. They laid the foundation of greed and social discontent...

Abuja: A Beautiful Nonsense

I must confess that I am still a stranger in this pampered city; since I am barely two months old in this city of chaos and confusion. But all the same, these two few months have been quite challenging and eye-opening in my sojourn as a journalist...

Justice Or Public Policy: The Yar’adua Ruling

The recent ruling of the Court of Appeal, acting as the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal that decided that President Umaru Yar’Adua was validly elected on 21 April 2007 surely merits comments by Nigerians...

Why Buhari must act fast!

Buhari's efforts seem to be failing because of shoddy...

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...

From Yahoo Yahoo to Yahoo Plus

Nigeria’s social dilemma is money. We ruminate endlessly on how, when and where to get it. We place far more value on material success than cultural and human values...

Making Our Roads Life-Worthy!

 I am not an expert on road safety. What I can do though, is apply the free common sense that God gave me. Common sense tells me that the entire system is bankrupt...

Understanding the Life and Times of Fidel Castro

The late former president of Cuba, Dr. Fidel Castro,...

Seven Reasons Why The Niger Delta Must Be Taken Seriously

Long before the formation of the most ferocious non-state group to ever traverse the Nigerian landscape, I had penned a series of essays warning of dire consequences: unless measurable and significant actions are taken to ameliorate the sickening socio-economic and political conditions that were pervasive in the Niger Delta...