Oliver Mbamara

Oliver O. Mbamara is a filmmaker, director, and actor with such films to his credit as "THIS AMERICA,” “SLAVE WARRIOR," and "SPADE: THE LAST ASSIGNMENT." He is also a judge with the New York State office of Administrative hearings. For more about Oliver O. Mbamara please visit OliverMbamara.com

Revamping The Nigerian Leadership: Applying What We Know

A society that finds itself losing grip or veering off the course of basic leadership responsibility has a superior responsibility to redirect its course which in many cases would mean a change of the status quo...

Responsibility and Accountability from the top: The kind of re-branding we need

As a Nigerian who continues to hope for the best for the Nigerian people, I feel elated anytime someone in a leadership position in Nigeria makes a daring, selfless, intelligent, and fearless move to address the corruption and leadership mismanagement that has plagued Nigeria for so long...

Approaching Genocide: Did We Learn Nothing From Rwanda?

Some of the people in Africa and other third-world countries adopt brutal savagery as a means of making their point or establishing their reign but those of us who disapprove of such barbarism in the twentieth century must do something when we see the signs of such approaching mayhem...

Are Diaspora Nigerians Ashamed of Nigeria? Pt 2

After landing, we were not allowed to leave the plane for 4 hours. Passengers argued that we were being treated with neglect because the flight was from Africa and full of Nigerians…

Are Diaspora Nigerians Ashamed Of Nigeria?

Nigerians in the Diaspora are reluctant to say that they are from Nigeria. Some of us believe we could lose an interview, lose our honor, or perhaps get treated unfairly differently, if we identify with being a Nigerian...

Dilemma of the Nigerian

Is the Nigerian in the Diaspora facing condemnation and alienation?

English is not my First Language

In trying to be grammatically correct in the English language, or to imitate the American accent, some of us who did not learn English as a first language deviate from the objectives of a conversation…

Hoping on Hope (Nigeria at 42)

Hope alone may not do the magic of revamping Nigeria, but 'to hope' is certainly more fruitful than 'to lose hope,' or to self-destruct...

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