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21 October 2013 at 11 : 57 AM
Ghana: Plucking a featherless chicken
From My Archives: Ghana: Plucking a featherless chicken “The government is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding government.” – Graffiti “You do not pluck a featherless chicken.” – African proverb. In the article ‘Sitting on Gold and looking for money in condom,’ http://alaye.biz/2013/07/sitting-on-gold-and-looking-for-money-in-condom-taxes/ we lamented the poverty of vision that led […]
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16 October 2013 at 11 : 45 AM
Africa And The International Criminal Court Of [In]justice
It appears that our leaders in Africa need a rather long time before they can wake up, smell the coffee and see the realities that confront them. At their meeting in Addis Ababa on October 10, 2013, they finally realized that the International Criminal Court of Justice was a colonial invention to perpetuate the […]
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8 October 2013 at 17 : 09 PM
Holland marked the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery
Published in the New African magazine, October 2013, pp34-35 – includes an interview with the Secretary-General of The Council of Churches in the Netherlands, Mr. Klaas v.d. Kamp July 1st, 2013 marked the 150 years the Netherlands formally abolished slavery. Actually, it took another ten years before the slaves began to enjoy their […]
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7 October 2013 at 14 : 58 PM
Kasoa: A most filthy City
The gods know that we have use this column to campaign and clamour for a change in some of our attitudes, so that we can begin to live decent lives like other human species. It is sad that in this age our people continue to live in conditions that are so dirty that they […]
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4 October 2013 at 07 : 32 AM
Surprising Europe
(With an interview of Ssuuna Golooba) Film Review & Interview Surprising Europe: The life and times of Ssuuna Golooba, directed by Rogier Kappers and produced by Jongens van de Wit, the Netherlands — 70 mn documentary and 9-part TV series, 2011. http://www.surprisingeurope.com/ The history of humanity is also the story about migration. In the final […]
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3 October 2013 at 11 : 12 AM
Baghdad Ghosts
(a satire) “Hey Saddam goon, so we finally got you?” “You, Buffalo Soldier! Who are we?” “We the mighty armed forces of the United States of America; the greatest fighting manpower in the world.” “You meant the United Snakes of America? You madafacker Buffalo Soldiers are simply beyond irony. They shipped your madafackingass from […]
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27 September 2013 at 12 : 00 PM
Charles Taylor and his CIA pals
So, finally the Imperialists Criminal Court (ICC), aka International Criminal Court, finally confirmed the fifty-year jail term slapped on former Liberian warlord, turned president, Charles Taylor. Effectively, Mr. Taylor will spend the rest of his life in jail. Why I was not surprised. I reprint here below what I wrote when Mr. Taylor was […]
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23 September 2013 at 14 : 31 PM
Indecencies in the Bible
My Books on Amazon 1. Africa: it shall be well: https://tinyurl.com/sn64ocd 2. Africa: Destroyed by the gods: https://tinyurl.com/vglfk7w 3. 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 “The Bible is a book written by ignorance – at […]
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11 September 2013 at 08 : 30 AM
Atrocities in the Bible
“I am for religion against religions.” – Victor Hugo. “Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is […]
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6 September 2013 at 16 : 48 PM
Absurdities in the Bible
“New converts make the worst zealots.” – Anon. “When Samson ran off with the gate-posts of Gaza, if he ever did so, (and whether he did or not is nothing to us,) or when he visited his Delilah, or caught his foxes, or did anything else, what has revelation to do with these […]
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