Akogun Akomolafe
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22 November 2011 at 12 : 00 PM
Till selfishness do us apart
I often wonder why analysts fail to put personal selfishness on top of their list of the woes besetting us in Africa. Recently, I was in the Bijlmer, one of the biggest suburbs of the Dutch city of Amsterdam. Bijlmer is one of the massive housing projects built in the 1970s to provide accommodation […]
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7 November 2011 at 09 : 00 AM
Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others
Africa is a writer’s delight. Nowhere else in our wide world does life imitate art so splendidly like in our dear and beautiful continent. Everywhere one looks in this paradoxical continent, one is confronted with images that set the writing adrenaline running wide. That life is so tragic-comic must be among the reasons Africans […]
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4 November 2011 at 15 : 00 PM
While we slumber and pray
When are we in Africa going to realize how far behind the other races we truly are? When are we going to wake up, rub the slumber from our eyes, gird our loins and try to do some catch-up? The title of an interesting story in the October 5, 2011 edition of […]
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10 October 2011 at 08 : 00 AM
Of School Uniforms and other Jazz
A Critique of the President’s UN Speech Femi, I think I have to reconsider my position on the death penalty. Ah, why? You have spent a great part of your life campaigning against it. What has happened? Why the change of heart? Whom do you want to shoot and why? I think the president’s […]
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16 September 2011 at 07 : 00 AM
Nigeria: end of African-centred foreign policy?
It is difficult to understand the logic that informed Nigeria’s decision to announce their recognition of the NATO-backed rebels in Libya. Although the leaders in Abuja said that it was taken in the interests of the country, it is very difficult to see how this ill-timed, ill-advised, wrong-headed and shortsighted decision could enhance the […]
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27 August 2011 at 22 : 00 PM
The Dutch and the attack on Libya
“Colonialism and imperialism have not paid their score when they withdraw their flags and their police forces from our territories. For centuries the capitalists have behaved in the underdeveloped world like nothing more than war criminals. Deportations, massacres, forced labor, and slavery have been the main methods used by capitalism to increase its wealth, […]
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4 July 2011 at 02 : 00 AM
Surprising Europe – Review and Interview
Film Review & Interview Surprising Europe: The life and times of Ssuuna Golooba, directed by Rogier Kappers and produced by Jongens van de Wit, the Netherlands — 70 mn documentary and 9-part TV series, 2011. http://www.surprisingeurope.com/ The history of humanity is also the story about migration. In the final analysis, we are all migrants. […]
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1 July 2011 at 12 : 00 PM
Namibian Land time-bomb
This piece was published in the Letter to the Editor section of the Pan African magazine, New African, July 2011 edition. Kindly permit me space for this letter in reaction to your story: “The Trouble with Namibia,” NA June 2011, pp4- 44. I must first thank you guys at the New African magazine for […]
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23 June 2011 at 20 : 00 PM
Interview with Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings
Amsterdam (22 May 2011) Ghana’s former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings is one of the two leading members of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDC) who have challenged incumbent President John Atta Mills for the party’s presidential slot for the 2012 elections. Following a protracted internecine battle, Ghana’s ruling party announced that the party’s […]
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5 June 2011 at 22 : 00 PM
On Party And National Interests
We in Africa lend great credence to the saying that new converts make the worst zealots. We appear to do nothing but take foreign ideas we barely understood, copy them blindly, use and abuse them, and turn ourselves into grotesque caricatures. Little wonder we are the laughing stock of the world. Let us take […]
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