Femi Olawole

Femi Olawole is resident in Delaware, United States. Security consultant, author, poet and columnist, Olawole is a man of many parts. He considers himself privileged to contribute essays to journals, newspapers and websites around the world. He has also had poems published in anthologies.
Nigeria Matters

The Price of Democracy

Femi Olawole -
For too long, the Nigerian people have been held hostage, taken for a ride and forced by the few rich, powerful minority to pay a huge, back-breaking price to sustain a most obnoxious, bastardized system of government...
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It’s Time to Save Nigeria

Femi Olawole -
In spite of the nation’s vast pool of human resources both at home and abroad, all we could come up with for President was a nice, smooth gentleman who, unfortunately, happened to be very sickly and psychologically overwhelmed by the tasks at hand...
Arts & Books

The Green Passport Reality TV Show

Femi Olawole -
Every Nigerian is a critic.  We love to criticize others for every problem in the world.  We especially love to criticize leadership in every stratum...
Life Abroad

Reflections In A Mirror Offer Opportunity For Objectivity

Femi Olawole -
Without doubt, the present high crime rate in Wilmington is having some adverse effects on the economic and social landscape of an otherwise beautiful city. The city fondly described as "a place to be someone" is fast becoming a city of nobody...
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Getting Practical – Time To Change The Status Quo

Femi Olawole -
As a people desirous of unity and progress for our nation, we don’t have to be at some elaborate national confab before we learn to confront issues head-on and without mincing words or beating about the bush.  We need to accept that during the abominable military era, justice and equity were willfully trampled by the military leaders more so, those of them who hailed from a certain geographical section of our nation...
Arts & Books

No To Sovereign National Conference – A Review

Femi Olawole -
The book, “No to Sovereign National Conference” is, without the slightest iota of doubt, a demonstration of a deep patriotic fervor by Adebayo Adejare.  The book offers some very cogent ingredients that he believes will pave the way for the enthronement of unity, stability and democratic governance as a going concern in our Fatherland...
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Celebrating The Nigerian Political Amazons

Femi Olawole -
The women in Nigerian politics have come a long way.  Theirs has been a very thorny and torturous journey through a very narrow and murky path in the nation’s political jungle...
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Pride And Prejudice

Femi Olawole -
For those in the West, negative projections on Africa serve a very veritable purpose.  In the United States, for instance, the homeless, the hungry and the poverty-stricken members of the society and especially among the minorities only have to view or read about the “African jungles” and they’ll forever be grateful to be Americans...
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