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...

Democrats, Disarrayed, Never Seem To Manage Victory Well

The off-year elections are over now. President Obama and the Democrats should realize and recognize the reality having just received a wake-up call...

Global Peace Security Through Justice Shared Prosperity

The interactions/interconnectedness of today's world has intensified so much that international cooperation is no longer a matter of morality or a desire to hold hands and sing Kumbaya...

Libya: Religion for Social Justice

Since 1969, Libya has been declared an Islamic state, where the Qur'an serves as the constitution and the sole point of reference in personal matters. No alcohol is brewed, sold or consumed in Libya, and there are no prostitutes...

Afghanistan, Though Ragtag, Keeps Humbling Superpowers

Superpowers have been and remain disdainful of Afghan nationalism. Afghanistan has never been colonized in the pure sense of colonialism. Every empire which sought to colonize Afghanistan has met her Waterloo in the hands of Afghans...

Is Obama Skittish About New York Democrats or Just Black Democrats?

President Obama's presence and occupancy of the American presidency, and tenancy in the White House, is not, and cannot be seen as mutually exclusive or contradictory, in terms, with the aspirations to political positions by other African Americans...

In a Pan-African state of mind

I wonder what Nkrumah would think about the impact of AIDS?  What would he think about Barack Obama?  Nkrumah’s warnings about neo-colonialism are well-known, but five decades later, what would he think about the state of regional integration?

Obama My Brother the President, Again!

Race remains a major factor in how life is lived in the United States, sadly and unfortunately. Race affects how life is lived in America and the entire the world. It affects trade-commerce, diplomacy, foreign aid, possession of nuclear weapons and all other facets of life...

A New United Nations?

The United Nations ought to concern itself with the activities of private banks and financial institutions operating internationally, and international financial institutions operating internationally having been established by agreements...

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Biafra, Tribalism and the Nigerian State – How “Our” Dreams can be Realized

The Biafra war was an eye opener for the minority ethnic groups that have previously complained about domination by their much more republican, enterprising and educated neighbors. The Biafran attempt to annex Brass, Bonny and other Niger Delta areas drew the revulsion of the fractionalized ethnic groups of this area...

Of Election Tribunal and Electoral Reform

The Nigerian democratic experiment is in its eleventh year and appears to be surviving in spite of its inadequacies. One may be tempted to call this "quantitative assessment". I have observed in some of my previous articles how dangerously our brand of democracy is being handled...

The Mark Of The Beast

With the “Saving Africa’s witch children” programme aired by the UK channel 4 television, we don’t need to be told that the mark of the beast is on the prowl...

Why Are Igbos Kidnapping Other Igbos for Ransom? A Response

I am not a psychiatrist or psychologist, but I will be quick to tell you that there is nothing peculiarly pathological about the antisocial behaviors which are now common in Igboland as all of Nigerian nooks and crannies...

Death of Abuja

On the morning of 25th of February, 2023 when...

Insider, Outsider: A Meditation on life in America

Life can be unkind here, sometimes. So it is everywhere else in the world, you may say. But in America, it is especially. We come here, compared to other places, dreaming of possibility. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses…,” the statue of liberty, beckons.    Then we face reality...

Oil Theft As A National Pandemic

The Riddle of the Oil Thief by HRM King...

Mike Awoyinfa: What Manner Of Journalism?

Why is it that in spite of the workaholic nature of the British society, Nigerians of all shades and callings are always ready to bear all sorts of indignity to visit the country? Why is it fashionable among Nigerians today to have their babies delivered in Britain or America?

Angst of a Generation in Transit: I Remember

I belong to a generation of Nigerians I would like to refer to as ‘transitional’. We were birthed at the threshold of a country’s descent from the sturdy, high grounds of magnificence as it began another into the peaty waters of obscurity...

The Lamentations of a Buharist

The Nigerian journey into the unknown is very scary....