Akogun Akomolafe
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28 May 2013 at 12 : 11 PM
Understanding Amerikkka
(a satire by Femi Akomolafe) What exactly is agitating you guys? Why are you so worked up over the president? The man has spent just nine months in power and he inherited a very big mess and to those of us outside, he’s doing a terrific job trying to fix the problems. […]
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22 May 2013 at 18 : 56 PM
Stolen Legacy
by George G.M. James. A Book Review by Femi Akomolafe Question: To what country do we owe our Civilization, Philosophy, the Arts and the Sciences? Answer: Greece Question: Who is the wisest man the world has ever seen? Answer: Aristotle Question: Name the world’s three greatest thinkers of all times? Answer: Socrates, Plato, and […]
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22 May 2013 at 12 : 57 PM
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
By Cheikh Anta Diop A book review by Femi Akomolafe [Dedicated to all the Comrades who keep on toiling to help Africa reclaim her past.] If there is any purpose behind my reviewing books and writing polemics, it is to urge Africans to say a big NO to SELF-HATE, SELF-PITY and SELF- […]
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9 May 2013 at 23 : 00 PM
They Came Before Columbus
by Professor Ivan Sertima A book review by Femi Akomolafe “They denied the conquered people the right to see God through their own imagination or to address God in a word that came from their own language. Every effort was made to wipe from their memory how they ruled a state and how they […]
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30 April 2013 at 14 : 17 PM
Africa: One step forward, giant strides backward!
“The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was […]
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30 April 2013 at 14 : 58 PM
On Miracles, Magic, Superstitions, Delusions and Emmanuel Television
“We have heard talk enough. We have listened to all the drowsy, idealess, vapid sermons that we wish to hear. We have read your Bible and the works of your best minds. We have heard your prayers, your solemn groans, and your reverential amens. All these amount to less than nothing. We want […]
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15 April 2013 at 12 : 58 PM
A repeat call for a part-time legislature
Predictably, the news that the government has released money to pay ex-gratia to parliamentarians was greeted with outrage by Ghanaians. The timing alone shows gross dis-respect to the good people of Ghana. At a time when citizens endure paltry electricity and water supply, it is nadir of insensitivity for our ruling elite to keep […]
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8 April 2013 at 15 : 06 PM
Gods don’t fix economies
(A reply to Most Reverend Prof. Emmanuel Asante.) 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 “Heaven helps those that help themselves.” […]
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5 April 2013 at 12 : 54 PM
Feeling sorry, unsorry for Mr. President
Why are you guys so merciless, even cruel and so totally heartless? Don’t you guys know that you are dealing with a fellow human being, an ordinary mortal like you and I, with blood coursing through his veins? Don’t you guys know that the man also has feelings like you and I? Or do […]
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4 April 2013 at 13 : 21 PM
Why not a National Science and Technology Day?
“We have already compared the benefits of theology and science. When the theologian governed the world, it was covered with huts and hovels for the many, palaces and cathedrals for the few. To nearly all the children of men, reading and writing were unknown arts. The poor were clad in rags and skins […]
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