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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Remix - I love my country

Who did the original song? NEWSBUKA for all the burning topics in Nigerian politics and society.

Sunday, June 16, 2013

The Midterm Report

Here is a link to the "Midterm Report of the Transformation Agenda."  It's 200+ pages, no pictures, but that shouldn't deter you from downloading and commenting on it.  That's one way to love your country. 

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Monday, May 27, 2013

OAU-AU Celebrates 50 Years of Existence.

In May 1963, Sekou Touré, Leopold Senghor, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Kwame Nkrumah, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Modibo Keita, Julius Nyerere, and other (male only) African leaders articulated the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU).
The African Union marks landmark anniversary
 As the host Haile Selassie said at that historic gathering, "We approach the days ahead with the prayer that we who have assembled here may be granted the wisdom, the judgement and the inspiration which will enable us to maintain our faith with the peoples and the nations which entrusted their fate to our hands."
Nelson Mandela and Muammar Gadaffi
That faith may have been broken time and again, and the reality of Africans may be far from the African Union's ambitious goals, but maybe today it's time to believe again in Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance.
African youth in 2013 (source: al jazeera)
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Friday, April 19, 2013

What Pa Chinua did


Achebe is dead.  A great tree has fallen - oak for ajebutters, we ajepakis say iroko.

The famous writer predicted Nigeria’s tragic comedies, observed and told the world about us; indeed he told us about ourselves.
For all those who have never read Things Fall Apart or a word of Achebe, here's a shortcut: The Voter is a prescient story of elections and superstition, of cultural upheaval and adaptation, and it takes only a few minutes to read.  You're welcome.

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Friday, April 12, 2013

Donate to Wikileaks

WikiLeaks is an international, online, non-profit organization.
Its release of US diplomatic cables in late 2010 gave Nigerians access to documentation of high-level intrigues and related gossip in our government.  See Sahara Reporters, The Guardian, and all the latest on Wikileaks + Nigeria
The leaking continues and you can help by making a small donation.

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