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...

Combating Shadow Votes

Probably more than any other developing region, Africa has witnessed far-reaching changes which have impacted socio-economic, political and cultural relations, with profound implications...

Euro-American Challenge And Africa's Response (3)

Scientifically, carbon-dating has established the genetic link between "white" and "black people", who lived in Old GUINEA, across the World. So, what are you talking about?

Euro-American Challenge And Africa's Response (2)

The utmost felony in the denigration of Africans is committed by some of our "leaders" who use every meeting with European officials to solicit for one assistance or the other. At times, they come fractionally close to grovelling...

Euro-American Challenge And Africa’s Response

Through their films, novels and other mass culture hits, the Euro-American has been, from birth, inoculated with the false notion that they are more intelligent than "black" people...

French Presidential Divorce Blues

The marriage institution is in crisis. More than any other era in history marriage as an institution ordained by God is undergoing serious re-definition...

Re: African Evangelists Destroy Artifacts

What Dulue Mbachu fails to grasp is that thinking and writing like the West robs every African, resident and in the Diaspora, including Mr. Mbachu, of every shred of respect in the global community of nations…

The White Race Is More Intelligent, Isn't It?

As long as Africa refuses to get her acts together, some wise men would teach wisdom and knowledge by letting people know that Africa and Africans are nothing but an inferior breed...

Between Joaquim Chissano and Olusegun Obasanjo

That former Mozambique President Joaquim Alberto Chissano, is a world apart from Nigeria’s league of ex-presidents is an understatement...

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EFCC, The Rule Of Law, And The Rest Of Us

The present situation where the EFCC is reported to have violated the court’s order restraining it from prosecuting former Abia state governor, Chief Orji Kalu serves as a reference point...

Demystifying the “Exoticness” of the African Fashion Model

The African Model for decades has and is still viewed as an ugly duckling. The rationale is that she is "too tall" and "too skinny" for a woman. Africa and particularly African men generally view an attractive woman to be one that is shorter and plumper...

Gombe APC and Marginalization of the Good People of Gombe South

By Comrade Yakubu Meshack The task of nation building has...

A Mother Like Lady Stella!

I have taken time to examine the various tributes paid to late Stella Obasanjo by several characters that have over the years over-tasked the public space with their uninspiring presence...

Do Not Rob Us

It’s been confirmed that the wealthiest place on earth is not the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria, neither is it the diamond fields of South Africa.  In fact, it is not the oil fields of Saudi Arabia...

The Importance of Functional Education

The importance of functional education to national life cannot...

Boko Haram Isn’t Waiting; Why Should Our Government?

Last week was a particularly dispiriting time for forlorn...

How much money does a man need?

Why tackle only the tip of an iceberg and leave the base to rot? For as long as the “political detractors” of the likes of Adeyemi Ikuforiji remain un-arrested and un-molested, our society has no moral right to prosecute or embarrass Ikuforiji any longer.

The Nigerian Press is Becoming Lazy, Corrupt, and Moribund

Today, the Nigerian Media is a shell of its once plump self: it has lost its way. And more so since 1999, the Nigerian Media has become lazy and moribund. And corruptible!

Wale Adenuga and the Legend of Ikebe

Any idea, no matter how small or banal, can...