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3 December 2013 at 08 : 42 AM
Exploration of Mars, Moon and the crash-landing of Wizards
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 Exploration of Mars, Moon and the crash-landing of Wizards. [This one is for my friend, […]
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2 December 2013 at 13 : 17 PM
Ghana: Where is the Justice?
Ghana: Where is the Justice? “Freedom and Justice” – Ghana’s Motto Justice: Among the definitions of justice I got from my dictionary is: “fairness or reasonableness, especially in the way people are treated or decisions are made.” My advice is that if you are a citizen of this great republic, and you believe that the […]
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29 November 2013 at 11 : 34 AM
VODEC Executive Director’s Shameless Plagiarism
VODEC Executive Director’s Shameless Plagiarism Femi Akomolafe I have lamented several in my writings that the ethical values which used to be part of our African cultures has ebbed to the point of nonexistent. What is even more lamentable is that many of us that pillory our officials for corruption, do not even observe even […]
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25 November 2013 at 17 : 02 PM
Contradictions in the Bible Part I of III
Contradictions in the Bible – Part I of III “You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need […]
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15 November 2013 at 15 : 43 PM
A Million Dollar Desire and other Matters Arising
“Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.” -Stephen R. Covey “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know […]
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12 November 2013 at 09 : 23 AM
Our Trilogy on the Christian Bible
Our Trilogy on the Christian Bible Atrocities in the Bible Absurdities in the Bible Indecencies in the Bible Related articles: Stop teaching the Christian Bible to school children Of god curses and the Ghanaian economy On Miracles, magic, superstitions, delusions and Emmanuel TV About the Author Femi Akomolafe is a passionate Pan-Africanist. A […]
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7 November 2013 at 22 : 35 PM
Juju Economics
From My Archive (a satire) Like almost all opportunists Professor Koji Jubanga is a prostitute. In his case, an intellectual prostitute. In the early 1960s, Koji Jubanga, then a young scholar, was a fire-breathing Marxist sporting the appropriate Karl Marx beard. Communist books and literature were cheap and sometimes free. The pubescent Marxist crammed his […]
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6 November 2013 at 09 : 51 AM
Sitting on salt wealth and living in poverty
In the article, ‘Sitting on gold and looking for money in condom-taxes,’ http://alaye.biz/2013/07/sitting-on-gold-and-looking-for-money-in-condom-taxes/, we lamented, among others, that “it is exactly our lack of capacity to think big; our inability to be audacious that is the bane of our lack of progress. It pains me greatly that I live in a country, so richly […]
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1 November 2013 at 13 : 58 PM
Chorkor Ghosttown: The Shame of a Nation
(In some parlance, a Ghosttown is a ghetto within a ghetto.) In the piece, ‘Kasoa: the filth of a nation’: http://alaye.biz/2013/10/kasoa-filthy-city/, we lamented the dreadful unhygienic conditions the people of Kasoa in the Central Region are forced to live. A kind reader read the piece and wrote to tell me that if I […]
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25 October 2013 at 08 : 52 AM
The Dutch and their Hypocritical May 5
The Dutch and their Hypocritical May 5 (I republish this piece which I wrote many years back because the Dutch, with absolutely no sense of any history that does not celebrate them, are feverishly busy with moves to retain one of the most powerful symbols of slavery, Zwart Piet, whereby a Black man keep serving […]
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