COLUMNIST: FEMI AKOMOLAFE

ldquo;In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments, only consequences. rdquo; mdash; Robert Ingersoll The t ...

ldquo;The most serious blow suffered by the colonized is being removed from history and from the community. rdquo; Albe ...

The decision by Burkina Faso to sever diplomatic relations with France is one of the most encouraging pieces of news to ...

One of the enduring mysteries of our age is the Western obsession with exporting abroad commodities that are either in s ...

Yoruba: T iacute; ar aacute; il eacute; ?ni b aacute; n j? k ograve;k ograve;r ograve; b uacute;bur uacute;, t iacu ...

Fran ccedil;ois Mitterrand once let slip the hidden scripture of French imperialism when he declared that without Africa ...

When Ghana attained independence in 1957, Kwame Nkrumah stood before the world and uttered words that shook the foundati ...

Around 1992, I wrote this about Germany: ldquo;Xenophobia is part of the German BEING. Hatred and persecution of strang ...

There is something profoundly sick about a society that can dance while its children are missing. The ancient Romans ...

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 ...