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...

Reserve Currency Supremacy: Why Euro Lost to Dollar

Being a carefully orchestrated dollar coup against the Euro, it is understandable why rather than Europeans celebrating, it's now Americans who are celebrating the euro crisis. Not by ordinary Americans and British, but by respected Washington insiders...

Now that Obama Has Spoken…

This September, the United Nations General Assembly will meet. It is time to return the UN to the path of strict application of international legal rules in the conduct of international affairs...

Sino-Japanese Territorial Dispute

Chinese diplomacy is firing on all engines in forcefully defending its territorial sovereignty and national integrity. The current Sino-Japanese dispute over the Diaoyu islands and rights over the territorial sea has taken on serious dimensions...

Before Obama Speaks

I start with the consideration that what happens in America should concern all of us since what happens in the world concerns America, according to Lady Clinton's doctrine...

The Assange Affair 2

I wish to add another footnote to the Assange Affair, on which I commented briefly in  an earlier  dispatch...

Lessons from the 2012 London Olympics and the Assange Affair

The success of the 2012 London Olympics is ineluctably linked with good organisation and the application of human intelligence at the highest level. There is evidence that there is no end to the ingenuity of men and women...

Hillary Clinton in Africa: Safari or Policy driven Trip?

If you have not heard, Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of States was in Senegal on her official 11-day African trip that will take her to Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and Ghana...

Reflections on Generations without a Future and Their Slide into Cultural Illiteracy

A generation has grown up in Europe in which a “feral underclass” is sliding into hate-based, racist-driven cultural illiteracy. As victims of cultural degeneracy, hooked on the hip-up mind-set, the young people of Europe are on down-ward slide...

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The Real Problem With Africa

The saying is well known that the first step in solving a problem is understanding what the problem really is. As long as Nigerians and Africans in general do not understand what the real problem is with their so-called countries, there will continue to be hopelessness and despair...

Obasanjo and the Quest for Statesmanship

Why is our nation, home to brilliant minds, rich traditions, rich in natural and mineral resources and centuries of wisdom, culture and morality, withering in poverty while most other nations rapidly move ahead of us?

Our dishonorable legislators: Was Obasanjo right?

To be honest, I was never a fan of Chief Obasanjo in and out of office, but I might again change my posture if what is currently brewing at the lower house is found to be true at the end of the day...

Religion and the End time Clowns

Many religious folks nowadays say they're called by God, yet they surround themselves with street urchins and questionable characters as bodyguards and workers...

Interrogating Social Inequality In The Body Of Christ

“The rich and poor have this in common: The Lord made...

The Nigerian Stock Exchange and the challenge of globalisation

One of the most noticeable changes in the management of stock exchanges around the world during the last one decade is the move toward mergers between major stock exchanges...

Mail from Jail (2)

Often, we all talk about scam as it concerns basically what we have come to term ‘yahoo yahoo'. Only on few occasions do we make reference to the scam that is perpetrated by corporate bodies...

Is Your Faith Just a Holiday Habit?

As the calendar year nears its end, a familiar...

Waterman by Echezonachukwu Nduka: The Poet Goes the Distance

Waterman by Echezonachukwu Nduka; Griots Lounge Publishing Winnipeg, MB,...

Obasanjo: Between Image And Reality

It is sad that as Obasanjo prepares to quit power in a week's time, feelings of disappointment, if not betrayal, tend to eclipse what ought to be Nigeria's day in the sun...