Onyemaechi Ogbunwezeh

Emmanuel Franklyne Ogbunwezeh contributes from Frankfurt, Germany.

How do we get Nigeria Right?

How can we get Nigeria right? It has been 57 years of turbulence. It has been five decades of uneasy peace and frustrated aspirations! How do we...

The Isle of the Living Dead

Wole Soyinka, that brave and brilliant Nigerian of unassailable integrity, wrote himself into immortality. In sequence of words upon brilliants words spanning reams upon veritable...

Kidnappers in Nigeria: Death Sentence for Treasury Looters?

The Nigerian senate on the 28th of September, 2017 passed a bill into law promulgating death sentence for kidnappers in Nigeria. If these are normal...

Accursed is the Land

Accursed is the land where the young are slaughtered for expressing a contrary opinion. That nation has betrayed tomorrow. That land is finished where the young...

Religion Nigeriana

The approach of many a Nigerian to religion is sometimes nothing but polymorphous perversity, if I could borrow Freud. Examples would bring this home to...

Taunting the Critic

Self-appointed guardians of political possibility who desire to mask their untenable neutrality when moral issues are on the dock would always essay to dry-clean...

And Racism became King

Those were the days. It was in the final days. And those days were pregnant. History has seen such days before. They were days...

Biafra: The Voyage of Memory vs. Custodians of Stolen Legacy

When memory sails across history, to reclaim landscapes of her birth, or recover epistemic citadels hijacked by imperialisms of conquering narratives; custodians of stolen...

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