Akogun Akomolafe
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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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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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