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“I should have known that ambition and success were not to be expected in an African woman. An African woman should be a good African woman whose qualities should be[…]
Analysis · General · Politics · World Affairs
With tears streaming down his cheeks, Vladmir Putin outgoing Prime Minister and now President-elect of Russia declared with great conviction, that his victory in the just concluded presidential elections was the outcome[…]
Analysis · General · Politics · World Affairs
The popular adage “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” kept crossing my mind in the run-up to the just concluded London Conference on Somalia. I wondered why[…]
Culture and Society · Literature · World Affairs · Writing
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[…]
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[…]
Economy · Technology · World Affairs
by Kola Tubosun
On “being” the relative of a dead prince
by Kunle Durojaiye
Occupy Nigeria, to be or not to be?
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[…]
Culture and Society · World Affairs
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[…]
General · Politics · World Affairs
“…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[…]