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...

Turks Caicos Seized by Britain in Re-colonization Aggression

This is an oppressive usurpation of political power, power which belongs to the people of Turks and Caicos! Britain ought to be told in very clear and certain terms, that the era of slave trade, colonialism and empire brigandage is past...

One Equals Fourteen Hundred in New World Order Mathematics

To be a nuclear power, all you need is the audacity. Then fortify such audacity with a few chess moves. And you are in. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has audacity perhaps. But he has no underwriter friends. Saddam Hussein's attempts at strategic ambiguity caused him his throne, and then his life and the ruination of Iraq...

One Equals Fourteen Hundred in New World Order Mathematics

To be a nuclear power, all you need is the audacity. Then fortify such audacity with a few chess moves. And you are in. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has audacity perhaps. But he has no underwriter friends. Saddam Hussein's attempts at strategic ambiguity caused him his throne, and then his life and the ruination of Iraq...

Did Communism Really Fail? Ideological Disquisitions

I have watched the jingles about Poland being propagated on CNN, as if Polish prosperity only took place after the Solidarity Movement impacted on Poland. The truth is that if the Soviet Union did not have a socialist state organization that defeated Hitler, Warsaw would not have seen war and survived...

Did Communism Really Fail? Ideological Disquisitions

I have watched the jingles about Poland being propagated on CNN, as if Polish prosperity only took place after the Solidarity Movement impacted on Poland. The truth is that if the Soviet Union did not have a socialist state organization that defeated Hitler, Warsaw would not have seen war and survived...

How Black Magic Is Under-developing Sub-Saharan Africa

Black magic is partly responsible for the near emptiness of our rural areas especially in West and Central Africa as modern day economic refugees and cultural migrants flee the stranglehold of black magical powers in their villages for the urban comfort of anonymity...

China as Friend and Partner to Africa

China invests wads and wads of Dollars in America. China in effect underwrites a great deal of American public debt. Why then is it that America does not tell China to go stuff her dollars elsewhere because of her infamous record on democracy and human rights?

US Diplomacy in Africa

It often amuses me when I read reports from Western journalists, who are fractionally knowledgeable about African history and civilization. Yet, these form the basis of preachings to Africans everywhere…

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The House is Mine – Sokoto Governor

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Kilimanjaro

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The Gospel According to the Oppressed

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It Doesn’t Take A Graduate…

Nigeria does not need someone whose orientation will be un-nationalistic, someone who will be more adherent to party constitution than the national constitution, someone with all the PhDs without a charisma for humanity...