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...

African American Experience and Lessons for Africans Caribbean Immigrants

It is almost taken for granted these days that life is good for African Americans in the United States. This is assumed, even though life is still full of racial impediments and obstacles for a majority of African Americans...

Barack Obama and New American Diplomacy (3)

Obama's linking the slave trade experience with the holocaust, was inappropriate. The death of six million Jews was deplorable, but words cannot describe a horrendous trans-Atlantic movement of human beings for over many centuries!

Reflecting On President Obama's Visit To Ghana

What the strongest man on the face of the earth should do  is to move beyond the rhetorical postulation of democracy as a sustainable form of government, and depart from an unimpressive argument that attempts to disconnect African poverty from Western exploration and exploitations...

Obama and New US Diplomacy 2

If Africans were "a fundamental part of our interconnected world, as partners with America", the US media dampens the enthusiasm of entrepreneurship through their reportage in which they tirelessly and with glee report about wars, disasters, aids and curious things…

Obama Publicly Shames and Ridicules Us; We Are Nonetheless Overjoyed?

50% of the sports men and women in America are African Americans, but, surprisingly, only 2% of all coaches and managers are African Americans! Why is that Mr. President? It is because, in America, racism often tells you who you are and where you should be!

Obama Publicly Shames and Ridicules Us; We Are Nonetheless Overjoyed?

50% of the sports men and women in America are African Americans, but, surprisingly, only 2% of all coaches and managers are African Americans! Why is that Mr. President? It is because, in America, racism often tells you who you are and where you should be!

An Immigrant student from Ghana Reflects on Obama’s Inauguration

Sometimes, African immigrants like myself, don’t sufficiently appreciate the sacrifices our African-American brethren had to make for us to enjoy the things we do today. The fact is-a lot of things we take for granted today-we owe to their struggle for equal and civil rights...

G8 Leaders Should Forget Africa

Africa cannot develop by relying on western aid. Also the Western countries cannot continue giving aid to Africa. The present global economic down turn is a pointer that financial aid from the G8 might not be sustainable...

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Vice President Atiku Is Illogical!

This man Atiku, is clearly lacking in good logic, good sense and sound judgment. How else does anyone explain his incredulous suggestion to the effect that President Obasanjo resigns? It just does not make any sense. President Obasanjo is the head of Atiku's ticket!

Digitization and Democratization in Africa

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Nigeria Economic Activities: Inflation, Interest Rate and CBN Meeting

The two-day meeting of Central Bank of Nigeria's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) ended with a lukewarm outlook, projection and pronouncement on the state of the economy by the Governor Sanusi, the head of the country's apex bank...

Amaechi and power Supply

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President Buhari’s Bailout

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Ahmadu Alli: A Man Of National Honor Or Horror?

It is a height of crassitude for organizers of the National award in Nigeria to vacuously consider bestowing a National Honor on this horrific man known as Ahmadu Alli whilst men and women who actively and sedulously worked towards the emancipation and liberation of our Country are superciliously discounted...

James Adewale Olawole – A Tribute

As far as my father was concerned, globalization did not start with business ventures. It did with religions. His thinking therefore was that if people, across the world, could tolerate mere business ventures of different natures, origins and tastes without any acrimony, why couldn’t they do the same with the different religions?

Jonathan: Looking Back From the Future

Mr. Jonathan’s circumstances are as tricky as Mr. Obasanjo’s in 1999, and his prospects, on the face of it, seem just as unpromising as the former president’s...

Is Genevieve Nnaji Nigeria’s First Movie Superstar?

What is this Nnaji mystique that has her audience colliding heads so joyfully, crawling, craving some time in her sun? Star quality is what it is. The amount of talent dripping from her little finger is more than many of our other female leading ladies have combined...