Africa

The traditional African belief and attitude to children has been successfully fractured by those who have deliberately perverted traditional belief and infused it with a distorted dose of Christianity…

Please allow us to introduce ourselves very briefly. You can tell from the syntax and diction of the first paragraph that we are Nigerians. We are members of the newly-formed …

Obama carries more burden than any other president this country has ever had simply because he’s a black man…

Obama didn’t really make history so to speak. He in a sense validated history rather than create one. A recreation of history was what he duly achieved, and I envy …

A lot of things can happen if all workers in Africa’s community of conscience begin to labor in a way that would make President Obama understand the need to focus, …

Africans are free to be optimistic about how well an Obama presidency will mean to the continent. But we must also keep our expectations of him to as close to …

After the dust has settled at the trail of electing the first man of colour to take over the wheel of affairs of the most powerful nation on earth, what …

Not since the regaining of liberty by Nelson Mandela and the displacement and replacement of minority rule by majority rule in South Africa, have I felt this exhilarated by the …

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…