Out of the 17 African countries turning 50 this year, information ministers for 16 them have one thing in common – they wake up every morning and thank the heavens they don’t have Dora Akunyili’s job. Akunyili, Nigeria’s information minister, has the Sisyphean honor of debunking managing the country’s notorious reputation in a digital age. What other African information ministers [...]

I was told this blog post deserved a larger (Nigerian) audience – cross-posted here NYT theater critic, Charles Isherwood, fires the first volley in the Fela! backlash, and I must say about time too; like a Barack Obama inevitably losing some luster, i thought the backlash against Fela! was also inevitable; the more rave reviews a musical about a radical Nigerian [...]

Cross posted Apparently the profiling has started. CNN talks to Rafi Ron, frm. security chief at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, and frm FBI agent Mike German about calls to ditch all the silly political correctness and to agree that if it looks, walks, and quacks like one, it should be profiled a duck: CNN Video The gist of what [...]