The historical factors that informed the imbalances and inequalities in the international relations among nations can be rested on the yet to be forgotten undignified status of Africans as a people of the conquered, pillaged, enslaved and raped race. The …
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Nigeria on Fire : The New Beginning II – National Integration And Sovereignty
The topic and the essay in this section was dictated by a classified advertisement published in The Guardian on Sunday on 11 October 1998 by the Integration Group of Nigeria. This group, as well as other groups quietly working round …
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Nigeria on Fire : The New Beginning VI (a)
The Moment of Truth The world is at the tail end of a miserable and wretched so-called Golden Age but named correctly by all fair-minded persons on earth as the Age of Greed. Fortunately we are again standing at the …
Nigeria on Fire : Nigeria’s Darkest Moment, 1985-98 (IV) – The Cult of Ibrahim Babangida
Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha, the two military demagogues, were not patriots in any debased sense, neither were they interested in protecting the North or anybody for that matter from any ‘foreign’ domination. They were merely two ordinary but psychologically …
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The Dishonourable Africans VII : Democracy and Leadership in Africa
In 1997, a Nigerian professor of political history published an essay titled, ‘Democracy in Africa: What Prospect?‘ in The Guardian newspaper of Nigeria. The title of the essay attracted my attention and sadly disappointment at the end. The erudite scholar …
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