Uzoma Nduka

Uzoma Nduka writes from Denver, USA.

The Niger-Delta and Gun-Boats

Where does the Niger-Delta arms come from? Who gives these unemployed, unhappy Urhobo youths AK-47s and mortars to eliminate his in-laws the Itshekiris? Where does the intelligent Itshekiri group get their machine guns... 

American “Jobbers” And 4-1-9ners: Fact Or Fiction

Vulture companies buy up the debts of poor countries at reduced or cheap price and turn around to ask for payments much higher than these countries were originally owing, and often taking these poor nations to court if they cannot afford to pay...

Oilgarchy: Neo-Imperialism Or Empire-Building Or Democracy?

Why the establishment of military bases in foreign countries? What is the aim of American global militarism? Is it an act of being proactive or anticipatory? Is America trying to become the Roman or British empires of old?

Once Upon So Many Decades

Let me tell you of a time when pupils knew all the names of the administrators, ministers, commissioners, president and prime-ministers and other government officials. We could tell the number of Local Government Areas in the whole country. We crammed prominent dates and names. We knew our Civics. We could recite verses from Chaucer...

Reawakening The Nigerian Nation

Nigeria is the dream our fathers had. Pre-independence Nigeria was more like a nation, with its soul intact. What we have today is a bunch of men who steal from our coffers to crown themselves kings and patriots...

What Obasanjo Will Say

I wasn't given the opportunity to actualize my dreams for Nigeria. Detractors fought my agenda with impish zeal. They worked against me and my government, trying at all times to defocus my government...

So What Is Great About American Democracy?

In the 21st century and in America, elections are still clouded. Elections are still clothed with abnormalities and imperfections...

Don’t Hang Saddam Hussein

The killing by hanging of Saddam will not resurrect those he ordered to be buried alive. Hussein's hanging may rather inflame the current tidal waves in Iraq. It will exhume the buried anger of Saddam's kinsmen and jeopardize the instituted democracy...

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