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...

Scott McClellan’s Book: How the Media Betrayed America

The media must think the members of the listening public are a bunch of morons. When will the media circus get it that we have stopped buying their bunk?

Americans: Descendants Of The Northern Cattle Rearers

I have observed that if an American politician desires to excel at the polls he must never thread on the  path of gun ban debates, especially if he’s seeking votes to the white house…

Tussling for Zimbabwe: Mugabe and the Neo-Colonialists

While there is much to be admired about Mugabe, there is unfortunately, much also about him that is to be despised. Like many other leaders of the ‘sit-tight’ variety, he has an extraordinary propensity for ruthlessness...

The Impact Of Energy And Global Food Crisis In Africa

Reports indicate that food prices have increased the world over by 83%, and these have led to several protests around the globe by consumer advocates...

Nappy Hair And Doing It Big

I wonder if she would have won the Miss USA pageant if she had left her hair in its natural state. If you think I am raising false alarm in this regard then you definitely have not been paying attention to the issues regarding a black woman’s hair...

Barack Obama Does Some ‘Weightlifting’ and Condi Rice Finds her Voice

Looking across the vast spectrum of mainstream American politics, but through the perspective of African American representation in the upper echelons of the United States government; one would be hard pressed to find two more notable figures than Dr. Condoleezza Rice and Senator Barack Obama...

Zimbabwe: Invasion as Solution

Zimbabweans deserve praise for their collective rejection of Mugabeism which has ensured nothing but cascading economic and social fortunes. They have collectively said via their votes that Morgan Tsvangirai is more...

Between Islam and Allam

A religion whose history is steeped in blood and recurring violence, one whose leaders feed the youth daily with the nonsensical doctrine that equates imaginary paradise with glorified matrydom cannot be described rightly as one worthy of emulation...

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The Religious Aspect of Politics and our Human Nature

In our need to feel more superior, to be more Catholic than the Pope, and to exhibit superior spirituality, we outrightly condemn other religions especially the African religious philosophies which were passed down to us by our forefathers...

Are Universities Still Universities?

I am going to tell you three or four stories about our universities. These stories are personal accounts of my experience as a university undergraduate. My plan is to use these stories as a periscope of what universities once were, what they are now and what they should be today...

Burma Boys and Strange Wars

Have you ever read a book that you could never put down because you feel this weird obligation to finish it? To relive that experience, buy Biyi Bandele’s book Burma Boy...

Education in America: Dealing with High Stake Testing

Nobody really knows where America stands as a nation. The educational system is going through a “car wash” and anything can happen in the next couple of years. One thing that is clear to me is that the Obama administration seems committed to improving the quality of public education...

Nollywood and Gollywood: An Appreciation

Only a decade and half ago, most of what constituted entertainment on television in Africa were B-grade Hollywood and Bollywood movies. Contrast that with now. African movies are everywhere. The access to these movies is so widespread, it’s unbelievable...

State Assemblies, Impeachment Plots and the Boomerang Effects

The heavy defeat suffered by the ruling party, PDP...

Media, Democracy and the Public Interest

There has been another addition to President Bola Tinubu’s...

Nigeria: blue print recipe for good governance

There is a tacit reassurance and a bubbling confidence that the era of military interruption in government is now becoming an aberration and a far dream...

Deities Tabernacled In Human Flesh

In several instances in his First Letter, Apostle John...

Endgame

Home, where is home? Look, now England is home. I will NEVER go back to that hopeless country and be ruled by idiots. Never! Don’t you see the point? Don’t you see the kind of people running that country and the beasts who are getting ready to run it again, after running it aground...