Akogun Akomolafe
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1 August 2017 at 07 : 00 AM
Obasanjo Agonistes
[Note: I wrote this piece in the year 2007 and, given recent happenings in Nigeria, I believe it deserves a republishing]. It is very difficult for me not to feel sorry for former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. Less than a year ago, Uncle Sege, as he’s fondly called, was a master of all […]
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14 July 2017 at 17 : 16 PM
Nigeria: Much Ado about Certificates
Per the Nigerian Constitution, the only educational requirement to contest most elections is a secondary School certificate. It therefore baffles greatly why politicians become embroil in certificate scandals. On Monday, 20th March, Nigeria’s foremost investigative media, SaharaReporters (SR) broke the airwaves with allegation that one of the country’s most flamboyant lawmakers, Senator Dino Melaye, […]
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8 July 2017 at 09 : 27 AM
American Dream
(a satire by Femi Akomolafe) “It is easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that seductive power – the power of dollarism. You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and other isms, but it is hard for you to cuss […]
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7 June 2017 at 18 : 03 PM
Not in Defence of the Chinese Galamseyers
A polemical satire by Femi Akomolafe Wow, Femi, it has been a long time. How are you keeping? Yes, o. I am good, thank you very much. Terribly long time. You are so right, my friend. How is life treating you? You don’t want to go there, Femi. It is all lamentations. […]
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7 May 2017 at 14 : 08 PM
Femi Akomolafe Interview with Angèle Etoundi Essamba
Interview with Angèle Etoundi Essamba [Amsterdam, June 26, 2013. Published in the New African magazine, 6 August 2013 edition] With over two hundred exhibitions in more than 100 countries, and more than 50 publications in High-End Journals/Magazines, ANGÈLE ETOUNDI ESSAMBA is undoubtedly one of the most-accomplished woman photographer plying her trade today. […]
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7 May 2017 at 14 : 32 PM
Femi Akomolafe interview with Polish MP John Abraham Godson
[Warsaw, Thursday, 18 August 2011. Published in the New African magazine, November 2011 edition.] Even for professed atheists and agnostics, some things so defy logical explanations that only the word ‘miracle’ could describe them. Take the case of Mr. Abraham John Godson, the Nigerian-born member of the Polish parliament. How to explain […]
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3 March 2017 at 10 : 01 AM
Presidential Letters -on our work ethics or lack of it
Fellow Compatriots, Greetings. In my inaugural speech last week, I promised to engage with you weekly with very frank talks on how I think we, individually and collectively, can do our best to move our nation forward. In that speech, I promised also to tell you nothing but the honest, home and homely truth. […]
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14 February 2017 at 06 : 14 AM
Presidential Inaugural address
(Had I been asked, this is what I would have written as Inaugural Speech for Nana Dankwa Akufo-Addo) Fellow compatriots, brothers, and sisters, accept my profound thanks and greetings. Our tradition and simple courtesy demand that I use this occasion to thank you for the confidence that you have reposed in me, by electing me […]
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9 February 2017 at 15 : 41 PM
Obama’s Legacy
[Published in the February, 2017 edition of the New African magazine] I was probably the only journalist in Ghana who refused to be wowed by President’s Obama’s beautiful speech in Accra, during his July 10-11, 2009 trip to Ghana. In the article I wrote to welcome him, Welcome, Emperor Obama, […]
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9 February 2017 at 12 : 00 PM
Letting Nigerians be Nigerians
Oga (elder brother in the Yoruba language), do you know that I don’t understand you self? (typical Nigerian grammatical construction) What do you mean, my brother? For whose benefit are you writing all those big, big grammar in the newspapers and on the internet? What do you mean? Oga, don’t be […]
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