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...

Single Currency for Africa: Incidental Or Essential?

Rulers from African countries will meet at the next bi-annual AU summit to discuss political, security and financial issues affecting the world’s top sub-Saharan region. Nigeria still hopes that there will be a single currency for the countries of the African Union...

Egyptian Liberation: The Triumph of Human Will and Dignity

Egyptians must understand that the driving away of the dictator was an opening to a long journey to democratic dispensation. Egyptians maybe in quick need of calling for an election, which is a good thing, but an election is not tantamount to democracy...

Julian Assange raped my prostitute too!

There are several aspects of the rape story against Assange I find incredible and just plain silly. First, Assange is not so physically well endowed as to have subdued two lusty women and whammed them, just like that.  How then did he do it?

Hosni Mubarak's Dictatorship Defeated Gone; What Is Next For Egypt?

It is a new day in Egypt! Egyptians jubilate, celebrate and dance in the streets most triumphantly! The world is transfixed and exultant for the successful revolution inspired and driven by Egyptians...

Islam, Political Islam, Paranoia, Irrational Unreasonable Fears

Now that Hosni Mubarak has resigned, would the Americans, Europeans and Israelis support a military dictatorship in Egypt or a thorough democratic transition processes?

Like Tunisia, like Egypt, like Nigeria?

You Nigerians are very good when it comes to religious riots and the pursuit of ethnic acrimony. You don’t look at the bigger picture. And that perhaps is the real reason why you may never bring change and development to your people....

On the Murder of David Kato, the Ugandan Gay Rights Campaigner

We the undersigned condemn in the strongest possible terms the murder of Mr David Kato the Ugandan gay rights campaigner. We wish to state emphatically that homosexuality is neither a sin nor a social or cultural construct...

When Courageous Tunisian Meets Moronic Nigerian

The ‘okada’ riders, recharge card sellers, jobless youths, thugs, motor park touts, ‘Bolekaja’ drivers, armed robbers, hungry artisans, yahoo yahoo 419ers, gay hunters, ‘gbajumo onijibiti’, ‘olori ebi gbajue’, pure water hawkers, prostitutes, female Aristos and masked assassins are Nigeria’s own Bouazizis but all lacked the inner fire to set off a revolution...

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No Permanent Enemy in Nigerian Politics

It was a roll call of Nigeria's most powerful...

There May Be Trouble Ahead

There may be trouble ahead, but we should still be hopeful and optimistic for Yar’Adua’s new government...

A Witness to these Times…Conversation with Akin Adesokan (2)

"My writing is an attempt to bear an honest witness to my time, to the experience I have as a human being, as a Nigerian, as an African. The African experience – slavery, wars, colonialism, diseases, neo-colonialism..." - Akin Adesokan

I Love (virtually) “Empty Treasuries”…but Only if…

If my leaders tell me the "treasury is (virtually)...

Ojukwu: The Megalomaniac And Demagogue: Really?

I never met Ojukwu when he was alive. But every historian and other researchers worth their brief know that you need not know your subject personally to write about him or her...

The Challenge is Great; The Goal is Clear: Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s Inaugural Speech

This is a historic day for our nation, for it marks an important milestone in our march towards a maturing democracy. For the first time since we cast off the shackles of colonialism almost a half-century ago, we have at last managed an orderly transition from one elected government to another... - Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

Boko Haram: A Violent Symptom of a Rotten Embrace

Societies racing to hell usually make pit-stops at irrationality to re-tank their superstitions. They stop not only to caress their indiscretions, but also to refill their pathologies. On their way to oblivion, they loiter around the theatres of infamy. They celebrate feasts off their impunity. At those convocations, they erect funeral pyres to immolate their posterity...

The lack of drinking water and dangers of water boreholes

The cost and damage brought by drinking of parasite infected water with its borne diseases are very high, which mostly affect new born babies and children. This is a major contributory to the abysmal high infant mortality rate in Africa and Nigeria...

The Inside Story of Nigeria’s First Military Coup (2)

Not many realize that several officers of northern origin took part in Nigeria's first military coup. The "Igbo coup" tag attached to the Majors' assault ignores the fact that scores of northern officers took part in the Lagos operations, and even assisted Nzeogwu when he stormed the residence of the Northern Region's premier...

Fashola: A quintessential leader

Fashola's enviable performance in Lagos state must have been the cynosure of all eyes as his government is being recognised by local and the international community...