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...

American Law Enforcement Rights and International Consular Rights: US Vs. India

It was reported that the American law enforcement agents arrested an Indian consular officer in New York for failure to pay her maid the agreed fees for her domestic services, thereby violating the relevant agreement under the law...

Kim: He is no Racist!!!

Those of us who are Universalists, who are well-informed about the ideological musings between capitalists and socialists, who understand the inherent advantages and disadvantages between the two socio-economic systems, are wont to look at both sides  of international affairs issues...

Who Sits In The Seat After Obama? Americans Decide 2016

In dealing with the challenges of emerging worlds, Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton has proved that she is possessed with the capacity of not only leading the highly competitive process of American society, but an increasingly in secured world beyond 2016...

Russia Re-possessing Ukraine: A Plea to Free Timoschenko!

After centuries of the Romanov dynastic rule in Russia, the Bolsheviks, under Lenin’s revolutionary acumen, overthrew the Russian monarchy...

Mandela and Nigeria

Not a whole lot of positive news rushes out of Nigeria – especially lately, but one of the things we got absolutely right was our determined leadership and our drive in the pursuit of the emancipation of the Black man.  Nigeria was right on point in its dogged fight for the liberation of all Africans, particularly in places like Angola, Namibia, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), and South Africa...

Nelson Mandela: Human Rights Must Thrive

After the South African experience, where human rights were systematically violated by the apartheid regimes with the connivance of civilized nations, it is no longer enough to pay lip service to human rights...

Mandela: The Mind Of A Leader

He was a people's warrior. He never feared  the brutality of Apartheid, stayed strong and he remained focussed in his historic struggles for emancipation of the people of South Africa. He also remains an icon of inspiration to millions across the globe...

Mandela's Death: The Departure of the Soul of Africa?

2013 has been a hugely significant year for Africa. It is the year in which we lost so many significant personalities. Personalities who firmly stood as symbols of the African struggle to make Africa a better place...

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The Senator Who Came To Marry My Sister

If the hunted animal runs in an unexpected manner, an Igbo proverb goes, the hunter should shoot it in an equally unexpected manner. The problem here, however, was that the manner in which this animal had bolted was not only unexpected but unimaginable...

Getting It Right in 2011

I suspect that most Nigerians are almost exclusively riveted by the unfolding drama of who’s going to emerge president, by hook or crook, in next year’s election...

Chris Abani: Lie$ of the Truth-Seller

It is instructive that when a comprehensive list of writers who have betrayed their readers' trust through lies is made, you will never find an African on that list. By African, I mean continental African writers, persons born in Africa, who experienced Africa, possibly started their writing career there...

Between state governors, Aganga and the sovereign wealth fund

The call by the Central Bank to keep some of our foreign reserve in Chinese currency is a wise decision not necessarily because of the fear of the weakening dollar but for investment reasons...

An Open Letter To Okada Riders (Motorcyclists)

The most vulnerable part of a motorcycle rider is the head. Head injuries are the main cause of death to motorcyclists. Your chances of survival will increase if you wear a standard crash helmet...

A President and his good Intentions

Our long nightmare has just begun. But no one had any inkling that dreams will be truncated midstream. It all started in May 29, 2011; that sunny day in Eagles Square when President Goodluck Jonathan took the oath of office...

Periscope of the Roots of Nigeria’s Economic Woes

Solutions to problems, whatever the ramification, are never far...

The Mis-Education of the African People (2)

Due to educational systems that deny and reject African existence, an increasing number of black people are bleaching their skins in order to become lighter.  Women lead the men in bleaching their skins but the men are gradually catching up in the rush to be lighter...

Exchanging Ignorance

The news programs in America are doing the American people a disservice by keeping them in the dark about the rest of the world...

Zacch: No more climbing Sycamore tree!

It is unfortunate - though pleasant surprises can occasionally...