Africa

World Cup Tragedy Of South Africa

The urge in the beginning had been to entitle this piece “The Death of African Solidarity”. It took no time at all for me to...

South Africa: We Are All Victims

South Africa has pursued post-apartheid policies, the consequences of which we are seeing today. The country has a terrifying, soft underbelly which is now...

Manufacturers of Coups and Bandits   

Coups and bandits are all the rage these days. Just the other day, December 7 to be exact, there was the hot news that soldiers...

The Recorded Tragedies of the World

The history of the world has been a record of tragedies caused by the white, be they Europeans or Arabs. From our look at the...

Plus Jamais Jammeh!

Penultimate week an unpredictable political earthquake took place in Banjul, The Gambia, a tiny West African country of less than two million people surrounded...

Understanding the Life and Times of Fidel Castro

The late former president of Cuba, Dr. Fidel Castro, was a great man, a Marxist extraordinary, a human rights lawyer, a revolutionary, an anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist freedom...

The Aftermath of Donald Trumps’ Electoral Victory

When Barack Obama announced in 2012, that he would contest the American presidency, Donald Trump had the illusion that, being “white” and rich, he...

Hillary: The End of the Beginning!

Let me begin this piece by making a solemn confession: ever since Donald Trump was declared the victor of the American presidential poll penultimate...

And Racism became King

Those were the days. It was in the final days. And those days were pregnant. History has seen such days before. They were days...

Injudicious Shade of Democracy

Against many opinion polls and predictions by political and economic surveyors, the predatory American businessman and reality television star, Donald John Trump, won the...

Trump: What America told us

Less than five months after the Brexit referendum resulted in a rather uncomfortable 'Out' vote in the United Kingdom,  the United States of America,...

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A Dangerous Non-Debate

Nigerians ought to be having an urgent, indeed fundamental,...

Top 12 Reasons Why Igbos and Yorubas Should not Marry

If you have been pressured into breaking up because of tribal differences and you have no idea why you should - or if you should, then I am here to help you make that decision...

Oil Nigeria: Bothered For Fair Shares

What currently prevails in the Nation’s Southern oil enclave is a specific variant of internal colonialism….

In Defence Of Obasanjo

Nigerians may have become so accustomed to bad governance that they have blinded themselves to the positives of the last government...

All Hail King Nwankwo Kanu

At a time when most of the news headlines coming out of Nigeria are negative, it is heart warming to find one of our own creating positive headlines across the world...

Armchair Trotskys (1)

Mobs destroy and scarcely create. Be it as wild savages or unthinking herds, it has always been the preoccupation of the mob to tear down. Take the Nigerian mob for instance; by its impulsiveness, lack of forethought and restraint, want of personal and societal ethics, it expedites the destruction of everything and anything...

Amaechi's Consolidation OF The Projects

Another item on Governor Chibuike Amaechi’s menu as the Rivers State governor is the consolidation of the projects he started in his first tenure in office and their sustainability...

Village Boy and the City Woman

As soon as she stepped into the room, all the white men followed her with their eyes. Being a village boy, I had never liked city girls. Besides, my mother had warned me against them: white girls and city girls are not good for a village boy, she said...

Debt Creation & Nigeria’s Future Generation

Former Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola...

Tatafo witaut waya

Whether for good or bad, we have people that are averse to keeping secrets and Julian Assange happens to be one. Another name for a Tatafo is Amebo. Julian Assange is a komfam Amebo...