Africa & Beyond

The Government of Botswana in January 2008 banned the employment of Nigerian health and other professionals in their public sector, including doctors, pharmacists, lecturers, etc., on the grounds that Nigerians …

Past inspiring, Mr. Obama during his presidency must commit himself to tackling the important areas of concerns to African Americans if he wants his name in gold…

It is difficult to imagine the sort of emotions going through Barack Obama’s psyche at this time. Without a doubt he must feel waves of excitement and exhilaration, effusive emotions, …

This is wishing the 43rd president a safe and sound retirement and the 44th a safe and sound presidency. Both are great men in their own rights, history will remember …

Sorting through the aisles of my local Best Buy, same time as the outgoing President of the United States was delivering his farewell speech to the nation, it appeared no …

Surrounded, border-wise, by hostile neighbouring countries whose extremist wings ceaselessly denounce ‘Zionism’ Israel is proudly exercising her natural rights of existence…

Perhaps the time has also come for us to stop calling those carrier bags by the derogatory term ‘Ghana Must Go’; rather it seems more appropriate to call them ‘Corruption …

We shall overcome our common challenges only when we believe deep within ourselves that we have the solutions to our problems. It is that unique trait of the human animal …

Lately record inflation rates and cholera are ravaging the country while Mr. Mugabe continues to carry on in pomp as Head of Government. He has run out of ideas to …

With each passing decade in which large swathes of Africa continue to lag behind their counterparts in other continents, our under-performance in the development stakes becomes apparent. Afromatics is my …

The African ‘Big Man’ is not really liked in his country or village, he is however feared. He rules by force and guile. He is a menace…

For some years now, but especially in the last two years, the President of Zimbabwe, Mr. Robert Mugabe, has focused his efforts on self-preservation and self-perpetuation in office, thereby neglecting …

Whether you want to believe it or not Mr. Adujie, your support, tacit as it may be, for abortion, homosexuality, infanticide, puts you in the same category with the abusers …

Who among us has had to battle the headwinds of cynicism and pessimism from our fellow African brothers and sisters on the issue of how to improve the African condition? …

Barack Obama’s victory scored a rebuke on the cultural foundations of our own immigration policy. Here immigration is seen as a means of bringing people as fillers for vacancies of …

I read with considerable irritation and consternation, “The flip side of Obama” an article by one Dr. Femi Babalola, on how his favorite political party in America, the Republican Party, …