Akogun Akomolafe
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6 November 2013 at 09 : 51 AM
Sitting on salt wealth and living in poverty
In the article, ‘Sitting on gold and looking for money in condom-taxes,’ http://alaye.biz/2013/07/sitting-on-gold-and-looking-for-money-in-condom-taxes/, we lamented, among others, that “it is exactly our lack of capacity to think big; our inability to be audacious that is the bane of our lack of progress. It pains me greatly that I live in a country, so richly […]
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1 November 2013 at 13 : 58 PM
Chorkor Ghosttown: The Shame of a Nation
(In some parlance, a Ghosttown is a ghetto within a ghetto.) In the piece, ‘Kasoa: the filth of a nation’: http://alaye.biz/2013/10/kasoa-filthy-city/, we lamented the dreadful unhygienic conditions the people of Kasoa in the Central Region are forced to live. A kind reader read the piece and wrote to tell me that if I […]
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25 October 2013 at 08 : 52 AM
The Dutch and their Hypocritical May 5
The Dutch and their Hypocritical May 5 (I republish this piece which I wrote many years back because the Dutch, with absolutely no sense of any history that does not celebrate them, are feverishly busy with moves to retain one of the most powerful symbols of slavery, Zwart Piet, whereby a Black man keep serving […]
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21 October 2013 at 11 : 57 AM
Ghana: Plucking a featherless chicken
From My Archives: Ghana: Plucking a featherless chicken “The government is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding government.” – Graffiti “You do not pluck a featherless chicken.” – African proverb. In the article ‘Sitting on Gold and looking for money in condom,’ http://alaye.biz/2013/07/sitting-on-gold-and-looking-for-money-in-condom-taxes/ we lamented the poverty of vision that led […]
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16 October 2013 at 11 : 45 AM
Africa And The International Criminal Court Of [In]justice
It appears that our leaders in Africa need a rather long time before they can wake up, smell the coffee and see the realities that confront them. At their meeting in Addis Ababa on October 10, 2013, they finally realized that the International Criminal Court of Justice was a colonial invention to perpetuate the […]
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8 October 2013 at 17 : 09 PM
Holland marked the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery
Published in the New African magazine, October 2013, pp34-35 – includes an interview with the Secretary-General of The Council of Churches in the Netherlands, Mr. Klaas v.d. Kamp July 1st, 2013 marked the 150 years the Netherlands formally abolished slavery. Actually, it took another ten years before the slaves began to enjoy their […]
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7 October 2013 at 14 : 58 PM
Kasoa: A most filthy City
The gods know that we have use this column to campaign and clamour for a change in some of our attitudes, so that we can begin to live decent lives like other human species. It is sad that in this age our people continue to live in conditions that are so dirty that they […]
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4 October 2013 at 07 : 32 AM
Surprising Europe
(With an interview of Ssuuna Golooba) 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 […]
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3 October 2013 at 11 : 12 AM
Baghdad Ghosts
(a satire) “Hey Saddam goon, so we finally got you?” “You, Buffalo Soldier! Who are we?” “We the mighty armed forces of the United States of America; the greatest fighting manpower in the world.” “You meant the United Snakes of America? You madafacker Buffalo Soldiers are simply beyond irony. They shipped your madafackingass from […]
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1 October 2013 at 15 : 47 PM
Nigeria: End of African-Centered Foreign Policy
Nigeria: End of African-Centered Foreign Policy (reaping the whirlwind of lack of vision) It is difficult to understand the logic that informed Nigeria’s decision to announce the 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 […]
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