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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fani-Kayode: The bitter truth about the Igbos
"The Igbos understandably left the North in droves after those terrible pogroms and fled back to the East from whence they came. And perhaps that would have been the end of the story but for the fact...
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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fani-Kayode: The bitter truth about the Igbos
I totally agree with Prof. Afolayan that we in Nigeria, lack that central ideology, image, a "we" that all the ethnic nationalities can identify with. What we have been busy doing is to build a...
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Obasanjo: Nigeria is Jinxed
Nigeria Is Jinxed, Cursed Says Former President Obasanjo-PREMIUM TIMESAugust 13, 2013 - 17:36 — siteadmincaption: Former President Olusegun ObasanjoBy Jide Jegede While reviewing Nigeria's history...
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - What Do You Do When You No Longer Need Your Slaves?
What Do You Do When You No Longer Need Your Slaves? Tuesday, 13 August 2013 14:28 By The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program | Op-Ed (Image: Imprisoned hands via Shutterstock)What does America do...
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Strike: ASUU, FG Deadlocked Again, Talks...
Strike: ASUU, FG Deadlocked Again, Talks Continue MondayBy 247ureports26 ViewsPosted In ReportsTagged as Related Those Who Say APC Has No Agenda Are Ignorant, Says OduboteBuhari, Tambuwal, Lead Host...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Food for thought
"Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, and whatsoever things are of true report; If there be...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Obafemi Awolowo: Hero of Yoruba, Killer of...
Obafemi Awolowo is the undisputed hero of the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria whose wartime policy of starvation and currency change helped kill the Biafran dream. The post colonial era of Nigerian history was...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Book Launch
FORMAL PUBLIC PRESENTATION OF THE NOVEL: A QUIET REVOLUTIONARY BY IBRAHIM BIDA BUHARI.The Central Working Committee for the presentation of the book invites the public to its presentation. Date:...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Congratulations to the Longlisted NLNG poets...
I must congratulate the NLNG Prize folks for compiling a most thoughtful 2013 longlist: Afam Akeh, Amatoritsero Ede, G'ebinyo Egbewo, Iquo Eke, Obari Gamba, Tade Ipadeola, Okinba Launko (Femi...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Diaspora Music news: Hugh Masekela
Hugh Masekela in Stockholm! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "USA-Africa Dialogue Series" moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin. For current archives,...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - ‘Nigeria is cursed’ – Obasanjo castigates...
President Obasanjo has recently remarked that Nigeria is cursed with bad leaders and followers.Speaking at the 4th Annual Ibadan Sustainable Development Summit organised by Centre for Sustainable...
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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Nigeria, A country so corrupt it would...
John Mbaku, Roy, and others have spoken for me on this. The op-ed that provoked this conversation displays a shockingly pedestrian understanding of aid, portraying it as some kind of largesse...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Ok. So Lagos is not Biafra. A little about...
My apologies please.There's the saying, "Let the fool speak and the wise give no answer" and I suppose that's why some of the wise mwalimu in this series did not even deign to challenge "the...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - My apologies please.
There's the saying, "Let the fool speak and the wise give no answer" and I suppose that's why some of the wise mwalimu in this series did not even deign to challenge "the domination of Nigeria and...
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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fani-Kayode: The bitter truth about the Igbos
What bothers innocent people like me is why we cannot deal with issues that affect our corporate wellbeing without reading tribalism or ethnic chauvinism into it. Is it possible for those of us who...
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Mrs. Obama on Princeton, her alma mater...
NEWS | Beyond the Bubble | July 22 Obama '85 calls Princeton the 'iviest of the Ivy League' in talk to Chicago youthBy Catherine Ku in THE DAILY PRINCETONIANAssociate Editor for NewsPublished: Monday,...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - FW: Sharing an interesting article from ABC News!
Sharing an interesting article from ABCNews!http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/08/california-becomes-first-to-pass-historic-transgender-law/==============================ABC...
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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Nigeria, A country so corrupt it would...
to read the first few lines of roy's intervention and then those of felix is to see an interesting difference in rhetoric. even though roy quietly undercuts the image of aid as a purely benevolent...
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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Nigeria, A country so corrupt it would...
i want to say how much i like this analysis of moses ken (p.s. i have a friend who works for an ngo in uganda which seeks to identify some worthy project/recipients to receive aid. the aid is given, w...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Congratulations to the Longlisted NLNG poets...
What if Afam Akeh wins the LNG award, does it then mean that those immortal verses of his are worth 6 million naira? An amount Tompolo, the ex Niger Delta militant spends in a tombo bar in one day. I...
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