I am watching a CNN reporter, broadcasting live from Lagos. His location is backdropped by modern buildings, modern cars and tarred roads. This is Lagos, a city in Nigeria, where…
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Colin Kaepernick’s courageous stance (kneel) is moral and not for self-aggrandizement. Alternatively, had he chosen the hypocritical path and winked at racial injustice, he could have served as the poster…
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My brothers it is good as we share information on personal safety and on exercising caution as we deal with domestic staff. However, I wish we would not sweep the…
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Being a lawyer is no trite affair. Being a black lawyer is a big deal. Now being a black male lawyer is even a bigger deal. And it is pretty…
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One of the things that astonished me when I came to study first in the “bible belt” was discovering that there were many self-proclaimed Christians who did not know the…
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One of the degrees I have been fortunate to get is in the field of Accounting. The rules in accounting allow me to distill data down to the basics –…
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It was my first time in Cardiff, Wales. And I hadn’t been back in the United Kingdom since I was a kid. My childhood best friend and I took his…
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I love our Nigerian sisters. My mother and my sisters are black Nigerian women. If I disparage black women, I disparage my own blood and myself. But this might be…
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Ah! A picturesque tree of old world languages…Now what is bizarre about this picture? It has left out languages spoken in Africa, where there are over 2,000 different languages still…
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I am not sure if I should be excited about the BBC News initiative in launching a “pidgin” feature for a West African audience; or should I grimace at the…
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Our actions may have far-reaching consequences in time beyond our time on earth. Oftentimes, so does our inaction. Consequently, we may benefit from actions we are not responsible for. For…
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Barack Obama is the epitome of grace, graciousness, class, and humility. Given Obama’s laudable accomplishment of rising to arguably, the most significant office in the world, President of the United…