If you haven’t listened to Dr. Akinwumi Adesina’s recent interview with Rufai Oseni on Arise TV, you are missing out on one of the most important economic conversations of our …
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Africa’s Neo-Colonial Predicament: Revisiting the Berlin Conference in the 21st Century!
by Jude Obusehby Jude ObusehAbstract In 1884, the Berlin Conference epitomized the arbitrary partitioning of Africa by European powers, disregarding indigenous sovereignties. Over a century later, Africa confronts a modern iteration of this partitioning, …
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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge -Hosea 4:6. It cannot be overemphasized that Africa’s novel role in the formation and propagation of the Christian religion has not been …
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Africa has had very tragic intercourse with the world outside its borders. The continent was, for instance, besieged from the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian and Atlantic Oceans and from several …
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E pluribus unum, means “out of many, one.” This is my young cousin. His parents are immigrants from Nigeria. As you can see from the photo, he serves in the …
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The sly innuendo of Potus about African countries and Haitians is actually a blessing in disguise! African leaders need to wake up from their deathly ambitions for power and hedonism. …
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“African leaders do not resign, that’s cowardice and the fact that UK Prime Minister-David Cameron has just resigned confirms everything I have said about him—he is weak and a coward.” …
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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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There are strange developments between Nigeria and India, particularly as it concerns the ancient city of Ile Ife in Nigeria. Pandit Nehru was born on November 14, 1889 and Sir …
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The price of liberty is eternal vigilance –Thomas Jefferson. The human family at the dawn of the 21st century is faced with many problems: an increasingly polluted and otherwise threatened …
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During the colonial days more than a century ago the White men that came to Africa never bothered themselves with passports, visas or ‘yellow cards’ (a yellow-coloured paper testifying to …
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When the US President Barack Obama visited Ghana in his first mandate some years back he had famously declared that Africa, the blessed land of his late father, did not …
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When individuals and states denigrate, perjure and maltreat other individuals and states in wicked ways, they forget that there is a future, which they cannot control. In due course, Nemesis …
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In May 2000, the British Broadcasting Corporation asked me to contribute an online opinion piece that would x-ray the prospects for socio-economic progress on the African continent. The BBC’s commission …