COLUMNIST: FEMI AKOMOLAFE

One of the enduring tragedies of post-colonial Africa is not merely that we rejected colonial rule, which was both inevi ...

As a Pan-Africanist, one of the things I found most bewildering, bordering on outright disgust, is why, after sixty long ...

Africa has been told so many colossal lies, but some grand civilizational falsehoods have become so deeply embedded in t ...

If international relations were a stage upon which nations performed geopolitical dance, Nigeria, under the Tinubu gover ...

Femi rsquo;s Principle: When praise is deserved, give it without grudging, but never sheath the sword of truth. One o ...

One of my intellectual mentors, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, told us: ldquo;History is not everything, but it is a compas ...

As the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, makes his triumphant tour of our continent, inking pacts to illuminate t ...

In the pantheon of ungodly falsehoods, is there a species more contemptible than the mundane lie? Apparently, there i ...

I dedicate this piece to every African who, with the precision of a Swiss watchmaker, suddenly discovers a long-lost Eur ...

A question that pops into the mind whenever we consider the state of affairs in Africa is: from where came the peculiar ...

July 1st, or whatever arbitrary date they have now decided to shift it to, is Ghana rsquo;s Republic Day. It is that ...

If the Negro is not careful, he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it. ...

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 ...