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...

The Inevitable Recolonization of Africa

Many falsely assume that Africa’s first colonization was achieved largely by military means. Not true. In fact, many African rulers of those days willfully signed away their independence much the same way the people of Mayotte did at the ballot box...

London G20 Summit Minus Nigeria!

Mr President, Nigeria is part of the global economy, therefore your government should fashion out a way by which Nigeria should benefit from this big global economic stimulus announced by the G20...

The Dalai Lama and the New South Africa: Today and in Hindsight

Given the circumstances that surrounded the birth of the new South Africa, many had expected that issues of especially liberty, would shape and dictate the trajectory of South Africa's foreign policy...

The Hope That Must Be Worked for – Peace and Security

Nigeria being the giant of Africa, has a role to play alongside US and the international community in restoring peace, economic, political and sociological growth in Africa and the rest of the world...

To The G 20 Member-States of the World…

As long as Africa’s denigration - mind-boggling exaggerations, inaccurate reporting, plain lies and insults are the CNN and other Western media policy on Africa - so long will the needed transnational co-operation between Europe and Africa suffer...

To The G 20 Member-States of the World…

As long as Africa’s denigration - mind-boggling exaggerations, inaccurate reporting, plain lies and insults are the CNN and other Western media policy on Africa - so long will the needed transnational co-operation between Europe and Africa suffer...

BBC, CNN and The Rest Don’t Mean Nigeria Well

There is a war out there, a raging media war against Nigeria, Africa and the rest of the developing world. This war serves only the interests of the west, and thrives mainly on stereotypes and half-truths...

The Antecedence and Aftermath of Change

Today, if the dead were to be alive, and the living activists were to reflect on the journey of building an egalitarian society, there is no doubt in my mind that they will in unison offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving...

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Will President Obama Save the Black Race?

The hope for President Obama has ecstatically gripped not only African Americans, in the Black world, but apparently all people of Black African ancestry all over the world...

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!

Digital Cameras and Mobile Phones with Camera

I will suggest that Nigerians buy digital cameras and mobile phones with camera as part of our preparation for the 2011 general election. The whole idea will be for people to record every event that happens around each polling booth...

From Kampala to Abuja

Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo was the former Central Bank...

How Did ISWAP Really Find Brigadier-General Uba? A Warning That Must Shake Nigeria’s Security Architecture

The reported killing of Brigadier-General M. Uba by ISWAP...

Celebrating the Nigerian Woman

If there is any group of people that have been misrepresented either by their kind or those who don't know or have not met them, it will be the Nigerian woman...

The Tress Of Stress

Anybody who is stressed can be compared to a laboratory rat that constantly gets a dose of electric shock...

The Nigerian Royals Next Door

I am a serf.I do not have a following when I go to Nigeria. The crowd waiting at Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos does not celebrate my arrival. Neither will the crowd at my port of entry in the United States celebrate my return...

Andy Uba and the Hungry and Angry 'Gods'

History will yet prove that among those infamous men and women who 'aided' Obasanjo to defraud Nigeria for eight long years Andy Uba knew much more than any other...

Nigeria – Tsunami Of Corruption, Docility And Stupidity

Permit my reminiscences about a land I left behind so long ago. Permit my tears and frustration about a country I love and cherish so much. It is early morning but do permit the expression of my frustration about my fatherland...