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...

Africans Must Stand Up To Be Counted Or Africans Will Not Count In America

The United States government attaches a value of $400 billion dollars in federal dollars and political representation for the benefit of all residents of the United States. This can be lost or diminished through apathy, undercount and ignorance...

Obama Confronts Obama and Obama Wrestles Obama

After eight years of the seemingly anti-intellectual presidency of Mr. George W. Bush, who governed with a sort of  moral certainty and inspiration from his gut instincts, we now have the professorial, contemplative, deliberative  Mr. Obama, a savvy-suave and over-analytical president who is on the verge of being afflicted with over-analysis paralysis...

Tiger Woods and His Critics

The irony is that even known philanderers, confirmed adulterers, and certified hypocrites are having a field day criticizing Tiger Woods. All manner of people, people you normally wouldn’t leave your daughter or wife with, are all having fun at his expense...

Afghanistan: Obama’s Conundrum?

A simplistic view of America’s global policy is one which is driven primarily by national interest. A far less explored fact, however, is that a preoccupation with war occupies a rather subtle grey zone. Wars, while generally initiated in professed national interest, often get concluded or are directed at the behest of the commander-in-chief’s ego...

American Gun Rights: Imbecilic Infantilism

There are some Americans who pretend to be of medieval stock and act as if they are hunters and gatherers of yore, and they insist on gun ownership to enable them hunt ducks, turkeys and deer, for lunch as the natives did 400 years ago!

Palestine Declares Own Nationhood and Freedom!

There is really no need for Palestine to continue to have faith in stalled negotiations as Israel continues to expand settlements in occupied territories...

A New Vision for African Politics: The Obama Factor

There is a consensus that the world has become increasingly interconnected, interdependent and violent. Leaders around the world need to acquire the knowledge, skills and dispositions needed to inspire their nations in order compete fairly in a world characterized by globalization...

Imagine If “Sub Saharan Africa” Benefited From “African Americans”

I have observed that countries that tend to have success in managing their diversity very well, seem to share one thing in common; they tend to be great countries economically, technologically, culturally and socially...

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Odili Ujubuonu: 60 Years of Magic and Memorable Aesthetics

Odili Ujubuonu is a Renaissance man, that is, he...

This Government and the Need for a Convinced Public Perception

What happened to Nigeria? Simple. It's been run by thieves and morons for decades and ignorant Nigerians keep on electing them...

Jeunalists Must Have A Uniform Like Policemen

Jeunalists have replaced journalists in Nigeria. There used to be...

That Invitation Of Britain To Reform Nigeria Police

The recent call by the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro, to invite the British Police to reform the Nigeria Police has met with a lot of opposition and righteous indignation by many Nigerians...

Still on the Wike-Fubara feud

If we go back to the history of Nigeria,...

The Title Of My Book Is The Opposite Of Things Fall Apart

"Our country, like many others, has a long history of emotional violence and literature exposes this, because unlike the history books and the journals, literature chronicles emotions - Sefi Atta"

2015: Orji Kalu and the Raging Northerners

As we may know, the Hausa/Fulani see power as their inheritance that must not be tasted by other Nigerians, let alone, by minorities in the north. But they are good at calling on all northerners to fight for a collective cause...

Nigeria's 419 Constitution 3: Bakassi, Obasanjo's Sacrificial Lamb to The West

Can't you see that after unjustly incarcerating Dokubo for years, the federal government is now negotiating with him "on his own terms." What this means is that the federal government understands only the language of force...

India, Japan, Nigeria, Libya: Case Studies in Contemporary World Political Culture

One of the most demonizing legacies of colonial rule is that it etched indelible marks in the minds of ex-colonials that they must acquire wealth by hook or crook...

Comparative Analysis of the Nigerian and American Presidencies

Like America, Nigeria is a federation. America has 50...