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24 October 2014 at 08 : 43 AM
Femi Akomolafe’s Note to New Friends
Dear Friend, No matter who made the request, I welcome and thank you for becoming a friend and a part of my life. Let us try and keep the relationship on an even keel by being courteous and respectful to each other EVERY TIME. Let it be made clear here and now […]
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17 October 2014 at 14 : 48 PM
Libya: Three long years later
“The objective of the war is not to make UNITA win a war, but to devastate Angola and make the people lead wretched lives.” (TIME, August 10, 1987. p.33) On July 28, 2014, the mouthpiece of British imperialism, the BBC, assembled some Talkheads to discuss the tragic situation in Libya. According […]
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15 October 2014 at 08 : 45 AM
Crisis in Ukraine – lessons for Africa
It is difficult for an African, a continent where lily-livered rulers kowtow to Western diktats and allow usurpers that should come to us like beggars and supplicants, ride roughshod over us, not to admire the almost virtuoso performance of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the ongoing Ukrainian crises. Whatever one may detest […]
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23 September 2014 at 15 : 34 PM
Long time no see, and other issues here and there
Hey, Femi, what happened to you? It has been a long, long time. Where have you been? Simmer down, my friend. Why all the gushing enthusiasm? Sometimes, you are something else, Femi. Do you that? Do I know what? Is it a crime to have missed you? I know that I disagree […]
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23 September 2014 at 13 : 52 PM
Nkrumah’s Car Revisited
It gladdens the heart when it appears that our officials read what we write and decide to do the correct thing about the issues we raised. On Sunday, the 21st of September 2014, I went to the Kwame Nkrumah mausoleum to join in celebrating the 105th Birthday anniversary of the Osagyefo. Although saddened […]
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8 September 2014 at 11 : 38 AM
Dying Immigrants: Paradox of a continent on the rise
(published in the November 2014 edition of the New African Magazine) According to mainstream media, Africa’s economy is growing very fast. The continent is touted as the fastest growing region of the world. The World Bank, IMF, and African governments never fail to tell whoever will listen that seven out of the ten […]
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4 September 2014 at 14 : 01 PM
The Role of Diasporans in African Development
Femi Akomolafe ‘Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.’ – Frantz Fanon “When you have to call your former master back to do basic things for you, you are not free, you have re-enslaved or recolonized yourself. We spend too much time celebrating, too much […]
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29 August 2014 at 08 : 00 AM
Interview with Minister Hanna Tetteh
(published in the New African magazine) Among the brightest stars in Ghana’s political firmament today is undoubtedly the newly-appointed Foreign Minister, Madam Hanna Tetteh. A woman of keen intellect and amazing communication skills, Hanna Tetteh has managed to cut her teeth in Ghana’s cut-throat political clime without attracting negative publicity. Soft-spoken, articulate and very […]
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24 August 2014 at 14 : 52 PM
A visit to the Dutch National Museum of Science and Medicine (August 20, 2014)
We have consistently used this column to argue that our poverty in Africa is largely self-induced. We have opined that since the gods have endowed us with inestimable mineral wealth, there is little else they can do for us. We have pointed out that we do not face any problem that […]
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9 August 2014 at 07 : 48 AM
Defining New Economic Paradigms
“We have made a mistake to choose money, something which we do not have, to be our major instrument of development. We are mistaken when we imagine that we shall get money from foreign countries ‑ firstly, because to say the truth we cannot get enough money for our development, and, secondly, because even if […]
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