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...

Buhari is Dangerously Naive

“Those wanting secession, and restructuring of Nigeria, are dangerously naive”. -Muhammadu Buhari Nigerians screamed in disquiet, as a chicken ravenously pecked a mound of shit. Little...

John Pombe Joseph Magufuli: Requiem for a Fallen Hero

The gap in life expectancy between the average Africans and their leaders is indisputably wide. African leaders have better medical care, besides being insulated...

A Toast to my Auntie Okonjo Wahala

They no longer make women like my very own Auntie Ngozi. No, I have to be more precise: they no longer make men and women...

Buhari’s Nigeria Is Not My Nigeria

Things have fallen apart completely in Nigeria. Nothing has made many Nigerians lose faith in Nigeria more than the impunity reigning in Nigeria since...

Relevance of Elections to Representative Governments

It is not enough for us to assume the importance of elections to representative governments. If we say elections are one of democracy’s defining...

The Power of the Ballot

Not many things are as difficult to parse – and manifold in their aspects – as democracy. When melded with such concepts as representational...

Of Protests and Riots

Though often used interchangeably, a protest is different from a riot.  Whereas a protest is a nonviolent expression of dissent or disapproval or displeasure,...

Africa – A Continent on the Chopping Block

Africa has had very tragic intercourse with the world outside its borders. The continent was, for instance, besieged from the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian...

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Nigeria's 2011 Elections: Free but NOT fair!

The 2011 elections have come and gone. Winners and losers have been declared-and members of the Judiciary are pungently salivating. The president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, has already offered a verdict...

IBB: A Misunderstood Statesman?

Is IBB by any means a misunderstood statesman? I think he's not qualified to be addressed as a statesman and least of all a misunderstood one...

Are Some Men Really “More” Equal? Identifying the Trained Elephant in You

Many of us exist in various states of mental freedom. Whilst the fetters and chains have been physically removed and laws have long declared us free, many of us continue to struggle with our mental freedom for various reasons...

The Senate: A World Of Dog Eat Dog

In politics, you ensure you finish your enemies completely in a manner that they will never attack you. Anyim has failed so far. The next dog to be devoured may well be the Senate president...

Boarding School

I didn’t like day schooling. And I wasn’t sure how things would turn out when the idea of a boarding school was broached...

The Lost Ones

For those born and still living in the Diaspora, its not too late.  You can still retrace your steps and seek the land of your parent’s birth.  Even if it’s just for a visit.  At least before you die...

Essays From Exile: Nigeria By Air! Who Wan Die?

I will be walking home soon to Nigeria. I am going home to be rich. I am not talking of going home to land contracts that I will never execute. Nope, I am going home to be a seer, a soothsayer, a herbalist, a babalawo. Since the fiery crash of two airplanes within two months in Nigeria, babalawos have become suddenly hot commodities...

Another victim of a failed state in Nigeria's killing fields

This is a country that eats its young and brilliant ones. It is not surprising the country is experiencing a "brain drain". Who will want to stay in a place that has become a "hell hole" for young and old alike, where the only happy group are the looters, rapists, murderers and the brazen thieves...

Why Nigerians must defend the goalpost of Sports in Nigeria

Towards the dawn of the millennium while the component...

An Open Letter to the Movement of the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)

Armed militancy may have won us some concessions from the central government, but when everywhere we look, our villages and towns have turned into ghost towns, our people carry scars inflicted by their own sons...