Akogun Akomolafe
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4 October 2008 at 14 : 00 PM
Exit Thabo Mbeki!
Do you think those Southies are really Africans What, what is Southies? I mean those South Africans. You and your terms! Why did you ask if they are Africans? Didn’t you hear that their President has resigned? What is news in that, Presidents and Prime Ministers resign all the time? In Africa, come […]
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7 July 2008 at 12 : 00 PM
On Aid and Looting
“They switched from the old openly colonial imperialistic approach to the benevolent approach. They came up with some benevolent colonialism, philanthropic colonialism, humanitarianism, or dollarism. Immediately everything was Peace Corps, Operation Crossroads.” – Malcolm X. I felt the need to explain why I have never been thrilled by Western charities. I have been telling […]
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7 July 2008 at 12 : 00 PM
Decolonising the Mind
[feather-share skin=”wheel”] “Every time I hear the crack of a whip, my blood runs cold. I remember on the slave ships how they brutalized our very souls. Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.” – Bob Marley, ‘Slave Driver.’ In the articles, ‘The Philosophy of White […]
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7 July 2008 at 12 : 00 PM
ET TU Republic of South Africa?
“It takes a million people to build up a reputation But it takes one stupid fool to destroy everything you have done.” Lucky Dube The past few weeks were terrible times for Africans everywhere. And every true Pan-Africanist who watched the events in the Republic of South Africa (RSA) must have seriously belly-ached. That the […]
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7 July 2008 at 12 : 00 PM
Has Nigeria become a MALLAMoCRATIC State?
Government 101 teaches that a government has three branches: Legislature (to make laws); Executive (to implement laws) and Judiciary (to interpret laws). In modern states with complex socio-ethnic settings, the political elite try to let political offices enjoy as much geographical spread as possible. That’s why when, say in Ghana, the President comes from […]
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19 April 2008 at 13 : 00 PM
Africa, the usual beggar
“Europeans have a tendency of proclaiming ideas to the world that they do not believe themselves and would not dare live by if they are going to hold power over most of the people of the world.” – Professor John Henrik Clarke. Sometime in February 2008, George Bush, the brain-challenged war-criminal that occupies the […]
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12 April 2008 at 21 : 00 PM
Patriotic Journalism
“I wish African journalists were like their western counterparts.” “How do you mean?” “Western media are virtually adjunct of their governments.” “That is a rather sweeping generalization.” “Once you understand how they function, you can easily predict their take on any given issue.” “Ah!” “Take the case of Senator Obama. Remember him as the […]
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1 April 2008 at 23 : 00 PM
419 Elections
It’s pretty difficult to make a head or tail out of the just concluded elections in Nigeria. According to the twenty plus gentlemen who contested against the ruling party’s candidate, it was the worst election manipulations engineered anywhere in the world. National, Regional and International election observers were simply flabberwhelmed (contraption of flabbergasted and […]
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31 March 2008 at 11 : 00 AM
The Day The Dollar Die
“Isn’t it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?” – Kelvin Throop III “An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.” – Alfred A. Knopf “An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted […]
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29 March 2008 at 21 : 00 PM
Music Review (a satire)
Who asked Rita Tweneboah to sing? To describe her first (and hopefully last) CD cum cassette as a musical disaster is to be guilty of inadequate vocabulary. Nothing exists in the English language, or in any language that I know, to describe this incoherent, clangorous nonsensical piece Ms Rita foisted on us as a […]
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