Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

The concept ‘failed-state’ carries an understandable melodramatic import!

It is indeed a sickening and cruel joke by both the AU and the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to have recently sent Nigeria’s Olusegun Obasanjo to Sénégal to ‘mediate’ in the deteriorating political impasse between President Wade, who has insisted on seeking reelection for a t

In 1966, soon after the world commemorated the 21st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and made the customary solemn declaration of ‘Never, Never Again’, Nigeria defiled that season of reflection, commiseration and hope.

There is presently a hearty debate in Britain on the timetable for a referendum on Scottish independence or, more correctly, the restoration of Scottish independence.

It appears increasingly fashionable in the West for a number of broadcasters, websites, news agencies, newspapers and magazines, the United Nations/allied agencies and some governments, writers and academics to use the term ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ to refer to all of Africa except the five predominant

In that moving, intensely expansive exposition on the subject of history in James Baldwin’s ‘Just above my Head’, the narrative voice states:

General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, who passed away earlier on Saturday 26 November 2011 after a long illness, is one of the greatest Igbo of all time... Okaa Omee. He was 78.

In his recently published book, ‘Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British’ (London: Viking, 2011), Jeremy Paxman allocates just 12 lines of the total 272-page study to British-occupied Nigeria.

The state in Africa demonstrates a glaring inability to fulfil its basic role to provide security, welfare and transformative capacities for society’s developmental needs and aspirations.