Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

Please, do not ask me about religion. I get the evil look every time I tell people I am an agnostic who teeters on atheism. My world resolves around ethics and the rule of law. That’s it. I have no use for religion: religious convictions are not part of my existence -- the laws of man are good enough for me. I have lived in several cities: Seattle, Miami, Norman, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Saint Cloud, the District of Columbia, Houston, and Mankato. I am not sure where I am going to live next. And I have never really had a profession, only jobs: been a cook, a dishwasher, a civil servant, house cleaner, university instructor and researcher and so on and so forth. Every so often I get questions concerning the role and place of the African woman. Well, I don’t know; at least not with any certainty. What seems to work best is when both partners work as a team: cooperate, coordinate and collaborate their marital efforts. And they should be mindful of the insidious effect of modernization on the African family.

Why Do African Men Go Home to Marry?

The African male is perplexing. He can be enigmatic. He can be everything and sometimes, nothing. He can be sweet and loving and caring and benevolent and at the same time oppressive. His life is full of contradictions. In so many ways, he is a wounded animal as a result of his historical past...

The Story of Sex in the Nigerian Community

Women in Nigeria are beginning to find their place and their voice in a society that was for so long dismissive of their feelings and concerns and their sexual needs. In a society where men thought it was their birthright, a sort of entitlement to have 2 or 4 or as many sexual partners as possible now find that women are now demanding...

Niger: The Shame of a Continent

Niger is half the size of Texas but about twice the size of France. The country is bordered by Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Libya, Mali and Nigeria. Yet in times of dire need none of these countries came to her aid. None of the aforementioned countries came to her aid until children and women started dying and the nation was severely devastated. But of course that is the story of Africa...

Leadership and Development Problems in Africa: Responding to E. Terfa Ula-Lisa

Must a man or a nation or a continent that is beaten to the ground remain on the ground and wallow in self-pity?  Must we Africans use the injustices and the atrocities committed against us as an excuse for bad leadership?

Africa and the World: Responding to Paul Adujie

Our leaders have poor judgment and make bad decisions: they go around the world with their heads bowed currying favors; they go from one corner of the world to the other, with cap in hand, begging for financial crumbs. Africa has been a collection of beggar nation states right from the early years of political independence...

Charles Taylor: Nigeria and Obasanjo’s Credibility is at Stake

Liberia is far ahead of most African countries in terms of the number of warlords and despots she has produced. And among these malevolent and despicable human beings, Charles Ghankay Taylor was a legend. He was accused of virtually everything reprehensive...

Where Will You Die?

Will death come when you are alone and lonely in a nursing home, at a hospice or in a hospital ward away from the love and gaze of your people? When death comes, will your children be around you or away tending to their own lives in far away places?

Obasanjo’s War

My reading of Obasanjo is unflattering. If he had begun his presidency with the kind of zeal he is now displaying, Nigeria would have been a much better country. Or, at the very least, a modicum of law and order and institutional sanity would have enveloped the nation...

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