Africa & Beyond

Nigerians had already started to think that with Obama in the White House, visa problems don end, aid will come pouring in, and Green Cards will flood our streets…

Obama’s election may not signal the end of the Blackman’s struggle for economic, social and political emancipation, but rather it opens another vista of self-consciousness, of pride and self-awareness for …

As the Obama Presidency makes its final, tortuous and sure-footed journey from dreamland to reality, it is desirable that Nigerians and Africans must package what they actually want from that …

The immediate priorities of the new administration should be stemming the tide of economic troubles caused by the bad decisions and indecisions of the past eight years…

All around the world from Asia to Europe, from the swamps in Africa to downtown in North America, the victory celebration is on. I can imagine how Africans will be …

Today, we are here recording the Rebirth of pride; the Rebirth of a lost civilization; the Rebirth of superiority of Africans, even after many years of being deliberately shrouded in …

Barack Obama has captured the whole world’s attention, and it’s clear that the vast majority of people want him to win. Maybe Americans wonder why we care so much? The …

While Obama’s campaign has been one of the most uplifting and unifying in recent American political history, he is still regarded with suspicion by some in his nation…

The hope for President Obama has ecstatically gripped not only African Americans, in the Black world, but apparently all people of Black African ancestry all over the world…

There have been year long adulation and euphoric overindulgence for an Obama presidency. These have been calibrated in many ways. Media houses, political pundits, housewives, students, black Africans have all …

By some quirk of providential randomness, two men unrelated to each other, but united and defined by an uncommon sense of ambition and singularity of purpose will have their respective …

Women’s freedom of choice is what every being that is human should defend not only Obama or the democrats or liberals…

No matter who is announced winner of the American presidential election after November 4, what would never remain in doubt is that this is one election that would be far-reaching …

If Nigeria cannot find the will or ability to do the right thing by its own citizens, why should one dream or expect it to do the right thing by …

Critics and dissenters may be right in terms of some of the predatory nature of international trade and globalization, but it is hard to ignore the fact that trade and …

The darkest thing about Africa has always been the huge ignorance and misconceptions of this aptly termed cradle of civilization…