Position Papers

There is no doubt the continent of Africa needs reform. From one policy to the other, the continent continues to search for a focus that will take it out of …

Contrary to popular thought, there is in fact no new 1999 Constitution. What we have is the re-adoption of the 1979 Constitution…

Contrary to popular thought, there is in fact no new 1999 Constitution. What we have is the re-adoption of the 1979 Constitution…

Competent studies have shown that there is a current problem with the application of the pure forms of Democracy in Emergent Societies, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa.  The problem is …

Competent studies have shown that there is a current problem with the application of the pure forms of Democracy in Emergent Societies, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa.  The problem is …

It is true that most of us in Diaspora may not even be registered to vote at home. But we still can do a lot to influence what goes on …

In Manhattan, New York, a man was juggling barefoot along the street when curiously, a woman asked why. His reply: ‘I want to know how it feels because I am …

There is a broad alliance between culture, scholarship and imperial physics.  Before the West begins their slave merchandise or colonial robbery, or invasion, they start with scholarly misrepresentation of the …

It is imperative to subject Genocide’s Child, Dele Olojede’s Pulitzer winning story to metaphysics, psychoanalytic reading and a newer, pro-life criticism. Unlike The Diary of Anne Frank and The Story …

…The point is made in very subtle ways that women writers are a kind of second class citizens who should be kept together, – out of the mainstream – to …

…The point is made in very subtle ways that women writers are a kind of second class citizens who should be kept together, – out of the mainstream – to …

I became literate in English but remain illiterate in Igbo – my native tongue. I learned Latin – a dead language I would never use in the modern world… Today, …

Nigeria has not developed a culture of celebrating honest, hard-working achievers. Instead we have allowed others to foist upon us a paradoxical anti-intellectual situation in which recognition, indeed the highest …

Nigeria has not developed a culture of celebrating honest, hard-working achievers. Instead we have allowed others to foist upon us a paradoxical anti-intellectual situation in which recognition, indeed the highest …

The Federal Government and its officers will stand charge of complicity and dereliction of duty should it fail to condemn this fatwa imposed on a Nigerian citizen…

Perhaps the antecedents of any serious modern black South African literary production could be located in the fifties when political repression was at its most physically visible…