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...

“We are Now in Charge!”

A lot of things can happen if all workers in Africa’s community of conscience begin to labor in a way that would make President Obama understand the need to focus, for once in five hundred years, on Africans and not Africa...

Africa: What Obama Won’t Do For Us

Africans are free to be optimistic about how well an Obama presidency will mean to the continent. But we must also keep our expectations of him to as close to reality as possible...

Lessons from the US Elections

After the dust has settled at the trail of electing the first man of colour to take over the wheel of affairs of the most powerful nation on earth, what are the salient lessons to be learnt?

Were You Up For Obama?

Not since the regaining of liberty by Nelson Mandela and the displacement and replacement of minority rule by majority rule in South Africa, have I felt this exhilarated by the occurrence and outcome of a political event...

‘Don’t expect green cards because of Obama’ – Dele Olojede, Pulitzer Award Winner

Nigerians had already started to think that with Obama in the White House, visa problems don end, aid will come pouring in, and Green Cards will flood our streets...

My Own Obama Moment

Obama’s election may not signal the end of the Blackman’s struggle for economic, social and political emancipation, but rather it opens another vista of self-consciousness, of pride and self-awareness for the black man...

Africa And President Barack Obama

As the Obama Presidency makes its final, tortuous and sure-footed journey from dreamland to reality, it is desirable that Nigerians and Africans must package what they actually want from that presidency...

What An Obama Presidency Should (And Might) Look Like

The immediate priorities of the new administration should be stemming the tide of economic troubles caused by the bad decisions and indecisions of the past eight years...

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Tea Party for Africa?

Perhaps as a result of our faltered pre-independence history, or our near preoccupation in post-independence Africa with the inefficiency of our governments, we hardly ask ourselves whatever should be of the role of government in our daily lives...

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In Mallam Ribadu’s calendric experience, December, rather than April, has to be the cruellest month...

Corruption Has Won The Battle Against Corruption

As far as Nigeria is concerned, we should think not what we can do to corruption but think of what corruption can do to Nigeria and Nigerians...

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An investor must be very careful before investing in the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry. Not only are there sharks in this market, but also there are snakes and all varying personalities...

How Cole Porter Got My Student Interested In Poetry

Most of the students I've taught Literature-in-English in my school come in expressing an aversion to poetry or poems. So, to get them involved and interested, I try to convince them a poem is peculiar kind of language for very important people…

Niger Delta Avengers: Avenge me not!

Wanton destruction of lives and properties is now a...

A Celebration Of Passion

The first time I attempted to write a romantic poem as an adult, I felt a bit awkward for I'd thought that God loathed the idea of emotions and expressions of passion however pure it appears…

Nd’igbo Move On: The Destruction and Continual Rape of Igbo-land by Ndigbos

Some of these so-called Igbo leaders are fond of howling out “marginalization” but when they are given the opportunity to perform and serve the people, they perform disappointingly, unsatisfactorily and terribly...

Nigeria: The Road to Failure

Like many of the failed or failing states, elections in Nigeria do not provide a just and veritable platform for its teeming masses to change an abysmally bad system of governance...

Has Terrorism Dramatically Reduced In Nigeria? — Official Claims Under Scrutiny As Security Reality Remains Complex

Nigeria’s Defence Minister, General Christopher Musa, has maintained in...