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...

What Do Africans Owe Africa? (Part 2)

In a previous essay, I proposed five steps Africans must take in order to retake and save their continent from squalor, poverty and hopelessness. The primary aim of these essay is to provoke debates about the future of the continent...

Africa's Jumanji

Watching Jumanji reminds me of Africa. Hoping for the best, rolling the dice every which way expecting a certain outcome, but more often than not, a Pandora's Box seems to be unleashed no matter which way the dice rolls...

Thirty Minutes Lunch With Bin Laden

Americans have realized to their chagrin how vain it is to use military might to fight an ideology. Like spiritual warfare, the ideological war of terrorism is fought beyond the fringes of our circumscribed cosmos called the global village...

Mugabe’s Zimbabwe and the African Union

Asking the AU to do anything about Mugabe would be like asking a band of thieves to repent, forsake their ways and become saints. It is not going to happen in my life time...

Madiba @ 90: Waiting for the Nigerian Mandela!

The former South African President Nelson Mandela is a living legend from all indications. Mandela has attained, even in his lifetime, the status of an icon, a world sage...

What Do Africans Owe Africa?

It is impossible to tell, with any degree of certainty, how Africa would have turned out without slavery and colonialism. All we can do is guess, make conjectures...

What Does the World Owe Africa?

There are commentators who believe it is impossible to understand Africa without having a deep understanding of the suffering and calamities wrought by slavery and colonialism...

Barack Obama: The Symbol of the New World

It is important that as Obama barracks to the presidency, that he remembers the key factors that will determine his success or otherwise in the race. It is thus important that he formulates a formidable economic policy...

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Is Nyako in the Sambisa Forest?

It beats every sense of reasoning when a machinery of the Federal Government like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, bemused the world with the statement that the former Adamawa State Governor, Admiral Murtala Nyako has escaped from the country after he was impeached as governor...

The Nigerian Catholic Priest Challenging Stereotypes of African Medicine

Adodo Anselm Gbenga is a Nigerian scholar who is...

Ashimi Nimota Bukola: Making Nigeria Proud in Germany

A strange thing happened to her days after appearing in newspapers when people waved to her on the street and referred to her as the Nigerian actress. At her local grocery in Konstanz, people now offer to pick the bills!

A 'Child Witch' in London

Perhaps the valiant efforts of Sam Itauma of Child Rights and Rehabilitation Network coupled with the honourable actions of Gary Foxcroft of Stepping Stones Nigeria brought home the stark reality of the wicked phenomenon called child witches in Nigeria...

Be at peace with all people

Our actions may have far-reaching consequences in time beyond...

Chavez: Dominus Vobiscum!

Last Tuesday the whole world was informed of the transition of Comrade Hugo Chavez, the ailing President of Venezuela who passed away in a military hospital in Caracas two weeks after returning home from months of battle with cancer in Havana...

Sowing the Seeds of Discord without Mindfulness!

Here we go again on zukerville! The serial cyborgs...

The Silent Epidemic: Why Nigeria Must Stop Turning a Blind Eye to Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment is a cancer eating deep into the...

Transforming NIMASA: Mobereola’s first year

Dayo Mobereola's first year as Director-General of the Nigerian...

Internet, Netizens and Nascent Cupidity

We've got post-modern crimes and criminals and post-modern fraud and fraudsters; post-modern poverty and post-modern opulence. There are post-modern athletes and post-modern entertainers, post-modern thinkers and post-modern writers. There are out there post-modern builders and post-modern wreckers as well, post-modern homosexuals and post-modern heterosexuals...