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4 December 2016 at 08 : 47 AM
Welcome to Dubai
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 “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or […]
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26 November 2016 at 09 : 28 AM
Femi Akomolafe interview with Dutch MP Amma Asante
(When will our leaders stop putting Africa up for sale?) (published in the November 2016 edition of the New African Magazine) Photo credit: Remi Akomolafe History was made on the 9th of September when Ghanaian-born politician, Amma Asante, became the second African-born politician to become a member of the 201 year-old Dutch […]
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22 September 2016 at 16 : 42 PM
Yoruba Names
A Aanuoluwapo; God’s mercy is great. Aarin; refers to centre/middle Aarinade; in the centre of the crown Aarinola; the centre of wealth Abayomi; the enemy would have gloated over me Abejide; born during the rainy season Abidemi; born before the fathers arrival Abidoye; born before the arrival of a chieftaincy title Abiodun; born […]
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8 September 2016 at 09 : 42 AM
Politicians and other Scoundrels
[I dedicate this to my beautiful brothers and sisters in Kenya. As they go to the poll on Monday, March 4, 2013, may the ancestors guide them to make the right choices. This is for you, Toto Wanjiru Ndungu] Republished “A dead politician is the noblest work of God.” – Anonymous. “The greatest question […]
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28 August 2016 at 08 : 49 AM
Juaben: The Africa that was not allowed to be
In April of 2013, I spent two memorable weeks in the lush, lovely and peaceful Juaben town, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Juaben is one of the founding states of the famous Ashanti Confederacy. The Ashantis belong to one of Africa’s largest national groups, the Akans, who formed majority in both Ghana […]
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3 August 2016 at 06 : 53 AM
Trilogy
The Philosophy of White Supremacy Global White Power Structures Decolonising the Mind About the Author Femi Akomolafe is a passionate Pan-Africanist. A columnist for the Accra-based Daily Dispatch newspaper and Correspondent for the New African magazine. Femi lives in both Europe and Africa, and writes regularly on Africa-related issues for various newspapers […]
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25 July 2016 at 01 : 00 AM
What a Trump or a Clinton presidency will mean for Africa
Barring any shattering political quake, it appears that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will slug it out in the US November presidential elections. That such a profoundly illiterate, shockingly ignorant and crass politician like Trump get to vie for the presidency of the world’s most important nation, should tell us that […]
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10 July 2016 at 14 : 32 PM
The American Gulag
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 Then president-candidate Barack Obama drew the ire of conservative commentators when addressing a 2007 […]
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3 July 2016 at 11 : 11 AM
NDC School of politics
Good morning, Femi It is afternoon here, mister. Good afternoon. Whatever. How are things? Things like what? We are in fine funk today, aren’t we? You and who? Why do you always have be so irascible? Says who? Anyway, good luck to you and your mood. I just called to ask what […]
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30 June 2016 at 11 : 58 AM
ChristInsanity in Africa
Although little discussed, one of Europe’s greatest achievements was the successful imposition of Christianity on the people it conquered, enslaved and colonized in Africa. Just think about it: How did Europeans managed to convince the people they tricked, bought, branded, chained, enslaved, worked like mule and traded like cattle, to believe in […]
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