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...

Haiti and Nigeria: Case studies in failure of Human Management of natural resources

Haiti remains a constant site of catastrophe because of its heart-tugging social ills. Poverty remains the chief, also including deforestation, unstable governments, poor building standards and low literacy rates. Or as Professor Richard Olson of the Florida International University puts it, “there is a whole bunch of things working against Haiti..."

The Hypocrisy of Raising Money for the Haiti Disaster

It is, unfortunately, that time in the world again. A disaster happened and the rich people of the UK and America are trying to outdo each other in being proclaimed heroes and philanthropists. Only it is all self-serving hypocrisy and vain...

Yellow Sisi: Revisiting the Light Skin/Black Skin Divide

If slavery could be used to explain the preference of light skin in the USA, how do we explain the phenomenon of many dark skinned Blacks from the Caribbean and Africa resorting to bleaching cream in a bid to be light skinned?

Aid to Haiti: Nigeria, South Africa and African Union should work together

Many African countries including Nigeria, South Africa, Rwanda and others are offering assistance to Haiti but they should synchronize their effort...

We Are All Haitians Now…

I am compelled to ask why Haiti tragedies are seemingly ceaseless and endless. And why is it that Haiti never gets any respite? Why is it that Haiti has all through history suffered calamities, catastrophes and disasters?

A new view of Africa at TEDxEuston in London

It can be somewhat of a challenge living in western societies as an African. The media is often filled with stories that stereotype our continent as one filled with corruption, ethnic strife and violence. The occasional flicker of good governance is celebrated as a rare outlier of hope from an otherwise hopeless continent... - By Chikwe Ihekweazu and Ike Anya

Obama wrong on Nigerians

President Barack Obama has every reason to be dismayed with the Nigerian state. The Nigerian daily, Next, scooped last week that Umaru Yar’Adua, who has occupied space in Aso Rock since May, 2007, was brain dead. A brain dead “leader” pretty much sums up Nigeria’s tragic story...

The Train is Leaving the Station, Again!

Do you really think thugs and miscreants and batons and godfathers can stop the power of determined youths with good leadership, youths numbering in their thousands, towns and cities wide, nationwide?

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My Country, My Vote, My Money – Did You Spend It Properly?

Nigerians are working to avert a repetition of the June 12, 2003 incidence at the forthcoming 2011 general elections...

Dateline 2011: The Buhari/Ribadu 'Deadly' Combination

Majority of Nigerians, at home and abroad, are agreed that our motherland is terribly 'sick'! Yes, she is suffering from what one could call 'statehood tumor', an ailing condition that is similar to the prostrate cancer that has killed many rich men and women. And to combat the malady and save her from imminent death she has been taken to the emergency ward of a teaching hospital...

Musings on the Future of the World

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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's Epoch–Making Policies for a 21st Century Developed Nigeria

President Goodluck Jonathan, having put in place an effective intelligence and information gathering mechanism, and working collaboratively with Western countries like United State of America, Britain, France and UN to find these girls, is not relenting in his efforts...

The Night I Met A Beautiful Angel

Let me today remember an Angel I once met...

Sustainability and Unsustainability: Critically Rethinking the Status Quo

"The so-called ‘Unsustainability’ of the world is a dangerous lie! Nature is unimportant; only environment is important.” The environment improves and human life becomes better through technology, people and consumption..."

In Support of Iran’s Nuclear Ambition

If Iraq wants to go nuclear, she ought to be able to do so since every state has the right to safeguard her national interest. Why did the United States not attack the Soviet Union or vice versa during the Cold War? Every state knows the consequence of attacking another state with nuclear weapons...

Why should we go out and Vote?

Why should I go out this time to cast a vote that seem to have already been compromised by people like Adedibu who have registration materials right in their homes? Why should anyone?

Why Do Some Pastors Advise Women To Stay In Abusive Marriages?

Some husbands feel they have god-like authority over their wives and are justified in disciplining them if they refuse to "obey" or "submit" to their authority. In their sick, twisted minds, it's their job to "keep their wives in their places", as ordained by God...

Her Marriage To Three Men And The ‘Poliomyelitic’ Child

She was an angelic, innocent, and beautiful village Belle until her foster father dragged her into marrying three men 86 years a go...