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3 February 2010 at 01 : 00 AM
We didn’t vote for god
My Books on Amazon Africa: it shall be well: https://tinyurl.com/sn64ocd Africa: Destroyed by the gods: https://tinyurl.com/vglfk7w 18 African Fables & Moonlight Stories: https://tinyurl.com/s7qrp4p Try and get your copy. And, please, help me share the links. Kind regards, Femi Akomolafe “Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of […]
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22 January 2010 at 18 : 00 PM
Where are our scientists?
A friend once asked me why my radio set is permanently tuned to BBC World Service. My answer was a simple: ‘Because I don’t have a mind that consumes inanities.’ The mind, they say, is a terrible thing to waste. I have a very healthy respect for my mind and I simply do […]
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26 December 2009 at 13 : 00 PM
Obama: Were We All Naïve?
“People will not readily bear pain unless there is hope.” -Michael Edwardes How fast time flies! So, it is already almost a year ago now that the whole world was in a euphoric mood to usher in the 44th president of the world’s pre-eminent power, the United States of America: Barack Hussein Obama. […]
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26 December 2009 at 13 : 00 PM
Mo Ibrahim Africa Leadership Award
[feather-share skin=”wheel’] The dearth of quality leadership on the African political terrain was recently brought into sharp focus when the prestigious Mo Ibrahim Leadership Award committee said that it could not find a suitable candidate to nominate for this year’s award! No one can accuse Mr. Mo Ibrahim of not trying to do […]
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26 December 2009 at 13 : 00 PM
Ghana’s Ministers In Trotro
During the first week of October 2009 in Ghana the news waves were saturated with reports that some ministers of government had decided to have a taste of what hoi polloi go through every day in the transportation department. The ministers abandoned their brand new air-conditioned, four-wheel-drive jeeps — bought, fueled and maintained […]
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26 December 2009 at 13 : 00 PM
Hypocrisy As Way Of Life!
We refuse to be, what you want us to be We are what we are, that is the way it is going to be, you don’t know You cannot educate I, for there’s no equal opportunity Talking about my freedom, people freedom and liberty Yeah, we have been trodden on your wine […]
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26 December 2009 at 13 : 00 PM
Yar’adua Fiddles While Nigeria Burns
“Nero fiddles while Rome burns,” is a popular saying in the English language. Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus was the fifth emperor of the Roman Empire. Believed insane, he had some of his wives and mistresses killed at his whim. His mother (instrumental in making him emperor) suffered the same fate; she was […]
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26 December 2009 at 13 : 00 PM
Africa And The International Criminal Court Of [In]justice
“Until the philosophy that holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, there will always be war.” – Emperor Haile Sellassie “The ICC is not a court set up to bring to book prime ministers of the United Kingdom or presidents of the United States.” -Robin […]
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26 December 2009 at 13 : 00 PM
The Logic Of Corruption
Oga (Master in the Yoruba language), do you know that I don’t understand you self? (A typical Nigerian grammatical construction, ignore the blotch.) What do you mean, omo iya (my sibling)? For whose benefit are you writing all those big, big grammar? What do you mean? Oga, don’t be angry with me, but […]
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26 December 2009 at 13 : 00 PM
Oh, Shut Up, Mrs. Clinton!
“You tear out a man’s tongue and then explain that his dumbness is his own fault – the man is tongueless! Imperialists conquer peoples; turn their lands into dungeons; prevent industrialization; shore up all the feudal and native reactionary elements; distort the whole economy by forcing concentration on particular cash crops or strategic […]
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