Akogun Akomolafe
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28 July 2013 at 21 : 24 PM
Interview with Samia Yaba Nkrumah
Published in the AfricanWatch magazine. Thirty seven years after his death, the greatest African of the millennium, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is enjoying an unprecedented revival. President Atta Mills of Ghana has proposed celebrating his birthday as a national Founder’s Day. The president has also invited the whole of Africa to help celebrate the […]
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23 July 2013 at 18 : 08 PM
Sitting on Gold and looking for money in condom taxes
Femi, Femi, Femi! Yes, what is it? Why do you have to scream my name so loudly? Femi, how many times did I call your name? Please let me be, what type of question is that? What is the matter with you? Hmmm. Do you think that our leaders are correct up there? What […]
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15 July 2013 at 06 : 50 AM
Eating cake and all that Jazz
(a reply to Minister Fifi Kwetey) One of the things I like about the Mahama presidency is the way the President seems to have tamed his Ministers from making unnecessary noises. Unlike his immediate predecessor, President John Mahama appears to be running a disciplined ship. The president’s calm demeanor is another thing that makes […]
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11 July 2013 at 16 : 12 PM
A Pictorial Tour of The Netherlands
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 Africa: A Continent on Bended Knees: https://tinyurl.com/y239z24a Try and get your copy. And, please, help me share the links. Kind regards, Fẹ̀mi Akọmọlàfẹ́ Websites: alaye.biz akogun.tv Blogs: alaye.biz/category/blog akogun.tv/blog July 2013, […]
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21 June 2013 at 10 : 52 AM
Who is afraid of the Recolonisers?
(a reply to Robert Cooper) 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 “The people of the Third World are derided because they […]
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20 June 2013 at 05 : 19 AM
Feeling Sorry For Nigerian Scammers
“Moron loses money.” – Anon. It is very difficult for me not to feel sorry for and angry at the sad parade of bush-league amateurs that call themselves 419 scammers in Nigeria. There they are, a bunch of incompetent fools, wasting their time, resources, and energies writing stupid letters… [sample: FROM MR. PATRICK K. […]
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19 June 2013 at 09 : 47 AM
The Rhetorical Function of the “Christian Ethic”
From the book, YURUGU by Marimba Ani. (note: please this is not a review) Since many of us look blindly at Christianity as the personally delivered word of “GOD”, which is unalterable and a-historical, I am providing the following selection from the new book, Yurugu. Yurugu was written by Marimba Ani (Dona Richards) […]
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13 June 2013 at 17 : 01 PM
Bush’s Last Hurrah
(Humour / Satire) 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 Africa: A Continent on Bended Knees: https://tinyurl.com/y239z24a Try and get your copy. And, please, help me share the links. Kind regards, Fẹ̀mi Akọmọlàfẹ́ Websites: alaye.biz akogun.tv Blogs: […]
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30 May 2013 at 10 : 34 AM
Who Owns Papa’s Land?
In the heydays of apartheid in South Africa when Africans joined forces together to contribute to uprooting the evil system the Dutch brought to our beautiful continent, the late Nigerian musician, Sonny Okosun, released his signature song, “Papa’s Land,” which became a blockbuster and a battle rally-cry for anti-apartheid activists […]
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28 May 2013 at 14 : 11 PM
Writing our own HIStory
“The Europeans are not yet willing to acknowledge that the world did not wait in darkness for them to bring the light, and that the history of Africa was already old when Europe was born.” – Professor John Henrik Clarke. “For the last 500 years, the history of African people throughout the world has been […]
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