Akogun Akomolafe
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16 October 2012 at 10 : 01 AM
The Presidents and their speeches
You have been quite of late, my brother. What happened? Hmmm… You, what happened? I never knew you to be tongue-tied. What happened to you? My brother, our elders say when matters passed the stage to shed tears; we should just sit down and look. What matters? Why do you want to cry? […]
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11 October 2012 at 05 : 13 AM
Not so fast, Mr. Annan,
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” – Albert Einstein “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your […]
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20 September 2012 at 00 : 00 AM
Rational Europe and irrational racism
“In the past we made history and now history is being made of us.” – Jean Paul-Satre. Europe likes to tout its rationalism, and Europeans like to trumpet this as the main thing that separates them from the rest of us. European scholars never tired of telling the rest of us that we are […]
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27 August 2012 at 06 : 00 AM
Good Riddance, Mr. Ambassador
“The United States appears destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of Freedom.” Simon Bolívar. “Come, then comrades; it would be as well to decide at once to change our ways. We must shake off the heavy darkness in which we were plunged, and leave it behind. The new day which […]
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26 August 2012 at 11 : 00 AM
Destroying the begging bowl
Have you hear the good news, my friend. What news, now, my friend? I hope that you’re the bearer of some good tidings, I need some stirrups. Wow, the president has done it again. Our brand new president has pulled off another nice one. This is simply magnificent. What are you talking about, what […]
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18 August 2012 at 17 : 00 PM
A committee for development, please!
But why didn’t you call me? Call you, why? We saw each other just last week. You! Apart from you, almost everyone else I knew burnt good copper to call me. And you, you that I consider my best friend refused to call me, ah! Really, what happened; were you sick? Me sick? Allah […]
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4 August 2012 at 14 : 00 PM
Power: Its transient nature and the lessons of history
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” – Baron Acton. “The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.” – Albert Einstein. “The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which […]
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1 August 2012 at 08 : 00 AM
Dissing our own heroes
“If you can control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to […]
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31 July 2012 at 15 : 00 PM
A call for a part-time legislature
Readers will bear me out when I say that this column has done its best in chronicling some of the shortcomings we all see around us in this country of ours. Where possible, we have also proffered ideas and suggestions on how we think that we could move things forward. As we have often […]
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23 July 2012 at 12 : 00 PM
Lifting a hand to help ourselves
In my epic essay, ‘The Blackman’s dilemma,’ I wrote: “If the truth be told, ours have become a lethargic race. I have done my fair share of traveling around the world, and I daresay that I have never met any other group of people with absolutely no interest in improving their physical environment and […]
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