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A Review of El Anatsui: The Man, the Myth, the Legend at 80 and Counting (2026)
By Chris Uchenna Agbedo, PhD, fnias, mnal.
Preamble
“Beyond Bottle Caps...
For decades, the political narrative across Africa has been dominated by a single, unyielding aspiration: the adoption of Western-style democracy. It is a desirable...
Certain aspects of the western culture are good and may be copied. Nevertheless, it is shocking to see some Africans abandon, in whole scale, their Africanness...
The phrase Ndigbo usually evokes certain feelings amongst other tribes and races in Nigeria and the world over. These feelings can sometimes be that of love, hate, fear, contempt...
The black man has lost respect for his person and has such sacrificed respect even amongst his peers. We traded our kinfolks and then whined about slave trade...
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 the threshold of underdevelopment to the stage of stability and developed economy...
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 the threshold of underdevelopment to the stage of stability and developed economy...
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 how to balance between fair systems of letting the citizens determine what government they want against what is truly good for them...
Imagery works by means of analogy. It is a broad term used in describing all the images, figures and pictures of the mind present in a poem or passage...
Nigeria is a nation rich in natural resources and earthly beauty. However, there are a number of issues blocking its socio-economic growth and development. Chief among these issues are the problems of healthcare and unemployment...
Mr. President, I am not one of those beer drinking Nigerians that say your administration is the worst in the history of our nation. Far from it. You have done some things right, but you have gotten more things very wrong...
Haiti remains a constant site of catastrophe because of its heart-tugging social ills. Poverty remains the chief, also including deforestation, unstable governments, poor building standards and low literacy rates. Or as Professor Richard Olson of the Florida International University puts it, “there is a whole bunch of things working against Haiti..."
Unless a powerful cartel in the top echelon of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria is retrenched, the perennial power crisis facing the country will persist...
The cost of allowing the NYSC to remain far outweighs its benefits and a rapid, dramatic rule driven by the intent to create a model for future leaders, augmented with a requirement that qualifications and fairness be used in hiring our new graduates will perhaps set a portal towards a balanced approach to eradicating corruption at some levels...
In the illogical, absurd creed that reigns in Nigeria, a man’s life is worth wasting over N30! That, in a nutshell, is a picture of how much an average Nigerian’s life is worth in the eyes of agents of the Nigerian state...
The illiterate of the 21st century, in the words of the American writer Alvin Toffler, will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn...
As a non-Arab concerned with the plight of the people of Palestine and the burgeoning non-beguiling ordeal of the people of Iraq, I am forced to wonder about certain what ifs, such as, what if Saudi Arabia was democratic?
After six years of engagement in a contentious war in Iraq, there appears to have been a re-think about the military intervention in that country...
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