Africa & Beyond

I wish to add another footnote to the Assange Affair, on which I commented briefly in  an earlier  dispatch…

The success of the 2012 London Olympics is ineluctably linked with good organisation and the application of human intelligence at the highest level. There is evidence that there is no …

If you have not heard, Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of States was in Senegal on her official 11-day African trip that will take her to Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, …

A generation has grown up in Europe in which a “feral underclass” is sliding into hate-based, racist-driven cultural illiteracy. As victims of cultural degeneracy, hooked on the hip-up mind-set, the …

The saying that behind every wealth there is a crime has never stopped hitting my mind ever since I heard of it. I strongly believe that the word CRIME is …

After all is said and done, Mohamed Morsi has finally been sworn in as the first democratically elected president of Islamic Egypt…

What are the justifications for allowing a few members of the UN to reject a proposed measure of the UNSC through a veto power without qualification?  The justification for such …

Tragedy lies in our complete assimilation into colonial culture, the constant rejection of our values and principles in favour of western mannerisms and idiosyncrasies, the emergence of a generation of …

The embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was not destined for leadership greatness, global statesmanship or great political character from birth!

It is beginning to look like a child’s game but this is a serious business. President Obama and his reelection team have a formidable fight in their hands as they …

France and Greece are electing politicians that have rejected austerity policies which African leaders gladly accepted in 80s and 90s…

Anyone who enjoyed the privilege, or suffered the peril, of having to attend boarding school as part of the process of receiving a secondary education, may recall with good humour, …

France, as one of the principal world powers, official possessor of nuclear weapons, permanent member of the UN Security Council and one of the engine rooms of the European Union, …

Since the inception of World Bank, the United States of America has been producing presidents of the Brentwood institution.  But this time around a new tune is in play and …

The truth is that Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala has strong competitors to the position and it will take more than qualification and credentials to topple those two other gentlemen. To be frank, …

Maybe, Okonjo-Iweala’s removal will be Nigerians’ subsidy’ to a new lease of life. But is this the way she has to live: genuflecting from one slighted opportunity to another without …