chimamanda adichie has a wonderful piece in newsweek, reposted in the daily beast, that asks whether the jury would have believed dominique strauss-kahn or his alleged victim, guinean immigrant nafissatou diallo. On television, she was familiar: the skin tone that [...]
“Our world is one of terrible contradictions… Plenty of food but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others.” - UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon 31st Oct 2011 Just two minutes before [...]
There’s a saying in Hausa that goes thus: “juma’a mai kyau daga laraba ake gane ta” loosely translated means the signs of a beautiful Friday can be discerned from the preceeding Wednesday. I cannot help mulling over this proverb as [...]
There is a curious pattern of dangerous behaviour now coming out of the Libyan revolt against the government of Moamar Gaddafi. In this frightening CNN report, rebel soldiers looking to exact revenge on the dying regime have found a perfect victim [...]
Since the beginning of time, rape (and other forms of sexual violence such as sexual torture, sexual slavery, forced prostitution) has been used as weapons of and in war. From conflicts in Bosnia Herzegovina, Rwanda, Liberia, Congo and Darfur, rape [...]
“…Cruelty is necessary…you should kill too many, not too few…” are some of Anders Behring Breivik’s murderous recommendations for a European cultural renaissance of sorts that would prevent the “Islamic colonization” of Europe, listed in his manifesto: “The European Declaration of [...]
Last week was arguably a sad one for most if not all Nigerians as the government’s credibility was assaulted on two fronts simultaneously – security wise and diplomatically. The first was a series of controversial statements credited to the former [...]
Another day another war criminal has been apprehended in the person of the former Bosnian-Serb army leader, Ratko Mladic. He, along with former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic handed over to the UN war crimes tribunal in 2001, Radovan Karadizc captured [...]
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