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...

Germany In World Economy

Western economic theory is part and parcel of Western socio-cultural tradition. Its entire style of discourse seems to be changing...

South African Secret Laws: A Clear Hop, Step and Jump into Fascism and other Woes in the World

This engagement with the analysis of the woes of the world was the result of the energy unleashed at 11am on the eleventh day of the 11th month of this year, 2011...

Aid to Africa and UK’s gunboat diplomacy

Being a distressed continent in terms of marked improvement in all areas of human development, it would be recalled that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in 2001, accordingly had described Africa as a “scar on the conscience of the world”...

Lessons and reflections on Rome

Just some few days ago, the Italian political capital, Rome, once again became capital of world for those obsessed or even merely interested in world politics. The occasion, for the very few that may have missed it, was the fall of the Silvio Berlusconi government...

NTC: The time bomb!

The diminuendo of the ousting and death of Muammar Gaddafi came with the bombshell dropped by Mustafa Abdel Jalil in his inaugural speech, where he claimed Libya for sharia law, a law which had been jettisoned by the erstwhile government, and the immediate lift of ban on polygamy, as if that was the motive for staging this rebellion in the first place...

The Commonwealth: Its Diplomatic Relevance or Irrelevance; Kaddafi Vs NATO

The name Commonwealth was cleverly used to give the impression that the wealth of members was common to all. This was false and it is still false...

Africa as part of an invisible empire

Economies under invisible empire are ruinously and continuously undermined by systematically moving the economy from one form of fiscal crisis to another, with the intent to perpetuate underdevelopment and dependency on Western financial institutions...

Who Can Save Africa?

Just like any great people at a historic juncture, Africans today are crying out for leadership. They are looking for a messiah to show them the way, a messiah endowed with the power to ignite their passion and inspire the best in them...

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The Shame Of A Nation

There are professors and there are ‘professors’. Can some one please tell me what Maurice Iwu is still professing at the INEC? I am really shocked by this man’s vaulting ambition…

Madiba @ 90: Waiting for the Nigerian Mandela!

The former South African President Nelson Mandela is a living legend from all indications. Mandela has attained, even in his lifetime, the status of an icon, a world sage...

Questions…

Your soon to be wife is a virgin. A true virgin. Now, if you accidentally slept with her sister, and again accidentally slept with her step-mother five weeks later, would you tell?

When Giving Back Becomes A Problem

It is a social expectation that graduates of higher institutions come together as alumni to better the lot of their alma mater, manifested in a range of duties such as lending a helping hand to achieve the institution's goals...

Unkind Postures of the Boss

Some of our 'Ogas at the top' behave as if they do not need love from their 'Boys at the bottom'. They loathe showing kindness to their boys. What they see as the showing of kindness is the pittance they give to their boys...

America Invades Nigeria To Liberate Nigeria's Oil!

Why does the United States, a nation supposedly friendly with Nigeria, always find itself frequently engaged in the throwing of verbal and undiplomatic projectiles and cudgels at Nigeria?

Scholar, Bryan Clayton Chitwood, Interviews The Poet

By Bryan Clayton Chitwood First question: Could you tell me...

Who Is Nigeria’s Conscience?

Nigerians are very good at crowning false heroes. Just...

Burden of an Unpassing Past

Most Nigerians are still yet to come to terms with what it really means to be part of a modern world, many are still yet to grasp the essence of being a citizen in a democratic state...

Is There Peace Without Justice? Rethinking Peace

There is more to peace than the absence of war. Moreover, there is no peace without justice. This article is a rethink of the notion of peace...