Ghana’s Quest For A National Cathedral Has An Immoral Foundation
The burning cross of the Ku Klux Klan registers starkly as I think about Ghana’s National Cathedral project. What was meant to be a symbol of faith and morality...
Cameroon’s COVID-19 response could be undermined by a panoply of factors
The coronavirus (COVID-19) is now a reality in Cameroon as the number of confirmed cases has jumped to 56, up from the initial two on March 6, 2020. The...
Opinion: Between The Drums Of Secession And Call For A Revolution
Over the past few weeks, there has been an intensified publicity of the campaign for the breakaway of the Yoruba people from Nigeria. The proponents of this agitation want...
Opinion: When Corruption Fought Back; The Ballad Of Ghana’s Auditor-General
Ghana’s Auditor-General, Daniel Domelevo, is currently wallowing in a purgatory fashioned by his vivacious appetite to hound graft. He has been forced on leave for over 150 days. It...
Tinubu’s Inauguration: End Of An Error, The Dawn Of Calamity
"I am confident that I am leaving office with Nigeria better in 2023 than in 2015." President Buhari ended his farewell speech with this remark on the 28th of...
2023 Elections: A Street Robbery
If you can relate with the kind of mood you'd meet when on a visit to a street that had just experienced a robbery of a very violent dimension,...
#EndSARS: Two Months After Lekki Massacre, Sanwo-Olu, Buratai Yet To Be Sacked And Tried...
In a gory event widely described as Black Tuesday, Nigerians witnessed one of the most violent crackdowns on protest since the Enugu Iva Valley Massacre in 1949. Like bloodthirsty...
Labour Party And The Future Of Radical Politics In Nigeria
Needless to say, the 2023 elections happened amid overwhelming disillusionment with the system and popular discontent with the major establishment political parties—the ruling All Progressives Congress and the People's...
Buhari’s Pantamism
In Nigeria of today, under the clueless leadership of Buhari, Pantamism has come to join the ranks of notorious ''Isms'' that deals particularly in the Affliction of the Nigerian...
Students’ Loan: We Can’t Pay, We Won’t Pay
On November 22nd, 2022, Nigeria's 9th National Assembly successfully passed a Students' Loan Bill, a move that has now incited reactions along varying interests and ideological lines. The bill,...
Opinion: Corruption Continues To Fight Back And Ghana’s Special Prosecutor Is Its Latest Scalp
In an interview with a local radio station back in October, a director at Ghana’s Center for Democratic Development sounded the alarm over the lack of citizen concern on...
How The Lagos State Government Demolished Houses Of Low-Income Earners In Mosafejo-Oworonshoki, Forced Over...
In a sudden turn of events, piles of wreckage became the only remnants of what used to be homes to over 7,000 people, women, and children. Places of worship,...
Silencing guns in Africa: points to note
African leaders just concluded the 33rd African Union (AU) summit at their headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The 2020 theme has been choreographed as 'silencing guns in Africa,' a...
Detention Ordeal: My First 11 Days Of 2021; Starting The Year On A Revolutionary...
As though coming to battle notorious terrorists and bandits, they came at us with three loaded vehicles convening heavily armed men whose mean demeanor ricks only of lustful desperation...
Despair Has Become The Daily Bread Of Ghanaians Amid Cost Of Living Crisis
Regardless of the circumstance, the average Ghanaian’s favorite platitude is “we are managing.” Be it a rough patch in school, scraping for the rent or struggling with a rickety...
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The New Frontline: Youth Uprisings Across Africa Spark A Fight For Democracy And Dignity
Across the African continent, an unprecedented wave of youth-led uprisings is shaking the pillars of political regimes that have held power for decades. In...
Africa’s Coup Governments: When Elections Become An Exhausted Idea Confirming Democratic Fatigue
The trending successful military coups in West Africa today indicate the continuation of political processes and leadership by another method. Their executions have been...
Labour Party And The Future Of Radical Politics In Nigeria
Needless to say, the 2023 elections happened amid overwhelming disillusionment with the system and popular discontent with the major establishment political parties—the ruling All...
Political Instability, Intra-state Conflicts, And Threats To AfCFTA Agreement’s ‘Made In Africa’ Aspirations
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is arguably the African Union’s (AU) biggest project since the launch of the continent’s Agenda 2063 in...
How The Lagos State Government Demolished Houses Of Low-Income Earners In Mosafejo-Oworonshoki, Forced Over...
In a sudden turn of events, piles of wreckage became the only remnants of what used to be homes to over 7,000 people, women,...
Russia-Africa Relations: Africa’s Entanglement With Politics Of Patronage Without Liberation
There are intense political and intellectual debates unfolding in Africa. Since February 24 last year, when war broke out in Europe following Russia’s special...
Namibia Lithium Battle
On June 27, 2023, a judge of the High Court of Namibia, Ramon Maasdorp, ruled that the Southern African country’s Minister of Mines and...
Operation Dudula
There is no direct translation for the word Dudula in the English language, but the president of the organization that started off as a...
The Tragedy Of Namibia’s Working Poor
At the dawn of independence in 1990, a public servant working in an entry-level position for the state could afford to buy themselves a...
Economic Freedom In Our Lifetime
A packed FNB stadium with over one hundred thousand supporters demonstrated the mass appeal of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) amongst South African voters...
Organization Of African First Ladies For Development
The Organization of African First Ladies for Development (OAFLAD) launched the #WeAreEqual Campaign on Wednesday, August 23, 2023, at a banquet ceremony held in...
EFF Confronts Racism In South African Schools
An incident involving a thirteen-year-old girl child at the Crowthorne Christian Academy in South Africa led to the schools' closure and the re-sparking of...
Africa’s Rebirth At 60: Carrying Noble Ideas That Nobody Is Willing To Implement
To most academics, intellectuals, and pragmatists advocating for a genuine Pan-African renaissance six decades after the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU,...
Tinubu’s Inauguration: End Of An Error, The Dawn Of Calamity
"I am confident that I am leaving office with Nigeria better in 2023 than in 2015." President Buhari ended his farewell speech with this...
IMF And World Bank: The ‘Bad Samaritans’ And Neoliberals Cheating Africa Into A Cycle...
The Western liberal consensus has long been intervening and interfering in Africa. The first form of intervention was through the slave trade from the...