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31 March 2012 at 08 : 00 AM
Interview with new Malian strongman
Hello sir, or should I call you Your Excellency Call me Captain Sanogo. My name is Amadou Sanogo. But, sir, you are the new president… Me no President, me Captain Sanogo. I am head of the Committee for the Re-establishment of Democracy and the Restoration of the State. I am no president. But are […]
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13 January 2012 at 17 : 00 PM
Africa, o Africa!
“My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.” – 1Kings 12:11 For a writer, Africa is both immensely fascinating and infuriatingly repelling. The hugely blessed and beautiful continent that could enthrall so magically is equally capable […]
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17 December 2011 at 11 : 00 AM
Foreign Minister’s unpardonable gaffe
“The illiterate and shallow minded Negro, who can see no further than his nose is now the greatest stumbling block, in the way of the race. He tells us that we must be satisfied with our condition, and that we must not think of building up a nation of our own. He will say […]
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6 December 2011 at 11 : 00 AM
Nigeria: Siasia as a metaphor
The recent hullabaloo surrounding the position of Nigeria’s (now ex) national football coach, Samson Siasia, vividly showcases a stunning metaphor of a nation that cannot seem to get anything right. For those who do not know the story, here is the lowdown: Samson Siasia was hired by the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) as the national […]
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6 December 2011 at 11 : 00 AM
Thinking outside the box
As a writer who is also a keen observer of happenstances in Africa, it is quite distressing to see how those that are in charge continue to throw up their hands in despair and continually lament the sorry state of our affairs. Rather than sit, think and put in place policies and structures to […]
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25 November 2011 at 16 : 00 PM
A reply to Cameron
Our president, John Atta Mills, is really a very polite guy. Even as he tried to give a reply to the imbecilic statement credited to the current leader of that blood-letting and blood-thirsty Isle of Iniquities that still calls itself the United (?) Kingdom, our president couched his statements in diplomatic-speak. The shameless leader of […]
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22 November 2011 at 12 : 00 PM
Till selfishness do us apart
I often wonder why analysts fail to put personal selfishness on top of their list of the woes besetting us in Africa. Recently, I was in the Bijlmer, one of the biggest suburbs of the Dutch city of Amsterdam. Bijlmer is one of the massive housing projects built in the 1970s to provide accommodation […]
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7 November 2011 at 09 : 00 AM
Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others
Africa is a writer’s delight. Nowhere else in our wide world does life imitate art so splendidly like in our dear and beautiful continent. Everywhere one looks in this paradoxical continent, one is confronted with images that set the writing adrenaline running wide. That life is so tragic-comic must be among the reasons Africans […]
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4 November 2011 at 15 : 00 PM
While we slumber and pray
When are we in Africa going to realize how far behind the other races we truly are? When are we going to wake up, rub the slumber from our eyes, gird our loins and try to do some catch-up? The title of an interesting story in the October 5, 2011 edition of […]
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10 October 2011 at 08 : 00 AM
Of School Uniforms and other Jazz
A Critique of the President’s UN Speech Femi, I think I have to reconsider my position on the death penalty. Ah, why? You have spent a great part of your life campaigning against it. What has happened? Why the change of heart? Whom do you want to shoot and why? I think the president’s […]
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