COLUMNIST: FEMI AKOMOLAFE

The history of post-independence Africa is replete with stories of redeemers who failed to redeem themselves, let alone ...

There was a time when Yorubaland bred human giants whose mere presence unsettled empires. Giants who carried intellect l ...

My Yoruba people say: ldquo;?m? Atiro to ra bata w aacute;l eacute; f uacute;n b agrave;b aacute; ? , ? r? l oacute; f ...

There is something tragically theatrical about the modern African comprador. He struts around in imported suits, speaks ...

One of the books that transformed my intellectual life when I arrived in Europe in the 1980s was The Philosophy and O ...

The greatest weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed - Steve Biko To those of us who made it ...

Russian military strategy, Alexander Svechin warned: ldquo;The first duty of the art of politics with respect to strate ...

There must still be people around who would remember the time when India did not beg for a seat at the table; it helped ...

A popular tale in my youth had the former premier of the Western Region of Nigeria, Chief SL Akintola, so miffed by the ...

There is a peculiar, hard-to-believe affliction that grips the African commentariat in moments of global crisis: a child ...

There is something tragic in the ritualistic way African mis-rulers continue to shuffle, hat in hand, toward the gates o ...

For close to eight decades, the world has been asked mdash;no, instructed mdash;to genuflect before the United Nations a ...

ldquo;The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny. rdquo; mdash; Wole Soyinka ldquo;If you tremble ...

ldquo;The national bourgeoisie discovers its historical mission: that of the intermediary. As we can see, its vocation ...

I am not a prophet, but in my article, An Analysis of the War on Iran (

As an African, I feel terribly ashamed that my continent, ruled by kleptomaniac plantation managers, could not even must ...