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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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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Who do you say I am?

Nigerians are the most intelligent, enterprising, beautiful...
the world's happiest people...in a post-colonial, underdeveloped, third-world mess.

Unknown artist, Source http://au.int

Together, we are the giant of Africa...in a gigantic slumber.
We deserve credit for being Africa's peacekeeper.  

The best place to invest...but a long list of worries. 
Nigerians are good people with some bad habits.

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And we won!

Nigeria's Super Eagles are the African champions.

Journey to the AFCON 2013 cup

 May Nigeria continue to be blessed.
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