Let me begin this piece by making a solemn confession: ever since Donald Trump was declared the victor of the American presidential poll penultimate Wednesday (November 9) I have been…
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Those were the days. It was in the final days. And those days were pregnant. History has seen such days before. They were days before catastrophe made a landfall. They…
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Against many opinion polls and predictions by political and economic surveyors, the predatory American businessman and reality television star, Donald John Trump, won the Tuesday, November 8, 2016 American presidential…
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Less than five months after the Brexit referendum resulted in a rather uncomfortable ‘Out’ vote in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, a fellow ‘model democracy’ also tested…
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The US presidential election has come and gone, though the 2016 election was one of the most brutal in the United States in terms of venom and tantrums by the…
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In less than 48 hours Americans will be going to the polls to elect a new President, one that would take over power from Barack Obama whose 8-year tenure ends…
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It is dangerously unbelievable that Donald Trump could be making the forthcoming general election in the United States another Brexit. United States is different from Britain in terms of structural…
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After what I call serial vetting of this formidable and resilient woman-Hillary Clinton -by her political foes, her strong persona is one of her credentials for the highest office in…
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When you embark on a journey to visit equity at home, you must go with clean hands. When the business and real estate mogul Donald Trump decided to go into…
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The current editorial of the Atlantic Magazine is very potent, incisive, penetrating and consequential. It is an endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton for president of the United States.…
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In an attempt to attract black voters to his presidential campaign, Mr Trump painted an extremely dismal portrait of black life in the United States. He quoted abysmal figures (which…
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For a man who had the coronet of sainthood thrust upon his lengthy frame, for one who had wisdom associated with his lean features, for the leader who had knowledge…
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The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, by Ayi Kwei Armah of Ghana, is a book that deconstructs the personalities of Donald Trump and Ayodele Fayose. The book chronicles the…
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For the second time in the entire British history another ‘iron lady’ has taken office as the new Prime Minister, replacing David Cameron who was vanquished politically by the Brexit…
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WS, Your sundry hoary strands Stand as beacons To navigators cruising from all seafronts To the island of bliss, astuteness, scarred proficiencies and maneuvers that beat fulfillment without animosity, without…
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Alberto Fujimori was the popular former President of Peru for close to a decade. He came to power in 1990 and left in the year 2000. A Peruvian of Japanese…