Life Abroad

Peter Obi, The Nigerian Diaspora, And Propaganda

At the risk of sounding pessimistic, one could argue profoundly that Nigeria’s contemporary political atmosphere carries a systemic, tragic potential. This vulnerability is directly...

Japa Is Not In My Constitution

A lot of wannabes want to flee from Nigeria, but I am very different. The country turns me up and down anyhow such that one...

The Race To Expand Financial Access for Nigerians in Diaspora

In the race to build a secure, efficient and inclusive financial ecosystem for Nigerians globally, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), in collaboration with...

Overcoming Powerlessness And Hopelessness

The circumstances under which Nigerians in the Diaspora live give me immeasurable agony and grief. The circumstance of living under colour prejudice, racial discrimination and social indignity is serious psychological torture.

Overcoming Powerlessness And Hopelessness (2)

The circumstances under which Nigerians in the Diaspora live give me immeasurable agony and grief. The circumstance of living under colour prejudice, racial discrimination and social indignity is serious psychological torture.

Life In America: San Ysidro Windsong

My friend, the blonde one teases me about carrying my passport. She doesn't have to worry, she is a pretty blonde American, she will travel the world naked and American marines will die defending her right to be naked. I am a different issue altogether. I am American on paper. And I am black.

Eye Candy

Why do Africans go back home and then call it a vacation when the whole point of a vacation is to escape from home?

The Struggle Continues…

It is assumed that Nigerians abroad do menial work, suffer, get oppressed, derided, and barely scrape a living. Well, all that and much more!

Goat Meat Made In America

If you're really desperate to locate a Nigerian in the Washington area, hang around the African Food Farmers' Market...

Vegetable Medley Quiche

Hot roast of pork sandwich with mashed potatoes...They caught and killed the pig already so you don't have to worry about that...

Are You Loving Your Child or Raising a Brat?

A typical American child of a typical American parent cannot be raised entirely on the basis of African culture simply because the parent is a diplomat or immigrant in an African society. The same goes for an African parent and an African child in a country in the western world.

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Exterminating the Palestinians

Today, Palestine is getting to be as perilous as Baghdad. The Palestinian territory, the world must know, is now Israel's killing-field, their shooting range, a slaughterhouse...

The Rapture 8: A Glorious Dawn!

Heaven is indescribably beautiful and glorious. No mortal can tell it. And no mortal can tell it half-satisfactorily if even that mortal visits there a trillion times. No man made instrument can relay it for they can’t capture it in the first place...

The Arrogance of a President

Our president should know that if there is no vacancy at Aso Rock, there is no vacancy at Buckingham Palace or 10 Downing Street.

Mourning, Culture & the Individual

Immigrants are so often deprived, in the most intangible and unquantifiable way. I have missed out on opportunities, sundry opportunities, to participate in my family's happiest moments...

Buhari and the Syndrome of Sameness

President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration may have fallen prey to...

Is It Sane To Be A Christian In Today’s Nigeria?

In my opinion, the current politicking for 2015 and the religious perceptions being created may only fuel an extremist movement. President Jonathan is not my flavor of the month and I will not vote for him but what if he wins fair and square?

Open Letter to Dr Onyishi of Maduka University

In Don't Let Him Die: An Anthology of Memorial...

Will the Opposition Disappoint Again?

It is a great thing that the foremost opposition party in the country, the Action Congress of Nigeria, have begun to sound early warning signs to its members not to sign on to the poisoned chalice of unity government...

Why America Has To Be Seen And Accepted As The New Canaan Or The Promised Land

Even though, some people will tell you there is nothing better than home, my cumulative experience has shown me there can be a few places arguably better than home, and the new Canaan is decidedly one of them, if you ask for my honest opinion...

Will Osun Replicate Ekiti 2026?

By Kola Odepeju Two gubernatorial elections are crucial in 2026...