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26 December 2009 at 13 : 00 PM
Professor Henry Gates Got His Comeuppance
It’s not every day that yours truly reads something on the Internet that brings broad smiles to my handsome face. But the recent arrest of world-renowned Harvard University scholar and anti-African hatchet filmic documentarian, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., made me titter uncontrollably. Sorry, the spectacle of a bespectacled near-sexagenarian having […]
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26 December 2009 at 12 : 00 PM
Ghana Politics: It’s Our Turn To Eat
For this piece I am borrowing the title of the book by British Journalist, Michela Wrong, It’s our turn to eat. The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower. Seven months into regaining the reins of government, it looks like some members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are out to tarnish the image of […]
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26 December 2009 at 12 : 00 PM
The Fountain Of Knowledge – Nigerian Election Fraud, Charms, and Amulets
It was recently announced that Nigeria’s film industry (Nollywood) has become the second biggest in the world after India’s Bollywood. The reasons shouldn’t surprise anyone who has had even the briefest encounter with that unlucky land of my birth. Nigeria is a place where art does not simply imitate life; it’s a place […]
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26 December 2009 at 12 : 00 PM
Welcome Emperor Obama
Empire: “lands ruled by single authority: a group of nations, territories, or peoples ruled by a single authority, especially an emperor or empress.” Although Americans are loathe to admit it, their country is a classical example of an empire. With US military bases dotted all around the world and […]
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26 December 2009 at 04 : 00 AM
Brother Obama’s Visit To Ghana – The Nigerian Perspectives
Brother Obama’s Visit To Ghana – The Nigerian Perspectives (a satire by Femi Femi Akomolafe) Good people, Great Nation Good listeners, welcome back to Nigerian Television NewsFile. I am Iyiola Oba, your moderator today. Today’s programme will be dominated by the upcoming visit of the president of the United States, Brother Barack Obama, to […]
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26 December 2009 at 04 : 00 AM
Ghana: The Audacity Of Looting – Update
In “Ghana: The Audacity Of Looting”, I wrote about how Ghanaians were “sufficiently discombobulated when it emerged that, a day before the hand over to the new government on January 7, 2009, a mind-bending and super-extravagant presidential and parliamentarians’ retirement package had been approved by the outgoing parliament. The package was […]
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26 December 2009 at 04 : 00 AM
Rebranding Nigeria: An Exercise In Futility
“DAILY, Nigerians groan under the most inexcusable hardship as the government of President Yar’Adua appears not only unprepared to do something about the grotesque suffering, but more important, also lacks the orientation that confronts social crises. In the context of this, any “rebranding” project will be a total waste of resources by a […]
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28 April 2009 at 10 : 00 AM
Zimbabwe: Constructive Engagement
“What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?” —Jean Paul Sartre “We seriously hope that […]
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28 April 2009 at 10 : 00 AM
Ghana: The Audacity of Looting!
Ex-Gratia: payment made to show good intentions. Ghanaians who had thought that their long-drawn December 2007 polls which spoiled their yuletide celebrations, confounded their New Year revelry, exacerbated the ethnic tensions in their country, polarized their body politics and ended in the records books, as the presidential polls decided by the narrowest […]
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28 April 2009 at 10 : 00 AM
Cry Palestine!
“Everyone is crying now for peace, none is crying now for justice. I don’t want no peace, all I need is Equal Rights and Justice.” -Peter Tosh (from the album “Equal Rights.”) “When a people assume their God approves of their criminal action against another people, they have made God ungodly.” […]
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