Governance

Once logged forests can never be returned, and yet logging companies in Liberia are stealing forests with impunity, ignoring presidential decrees, and have not even paid the miniscule compensation they owe to forest communities.

We reproduce below an interview with Prince Edun Akenzua, younger brother of the Oba of Benin,published in the Nigerian Guardian.

INTRODUCTION

Jim O’Neill – the Goldman Sachs banker who in 2001 coined the idea of a Brazil-Russia-India-China ‘BRIC’ serving as “building bricks of the 21st century world economy” – has another bright idea.

This extraordinary praise came amid chapters on Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, William Monroe Trotter, and Marcus Garvey.

INTRODUCTION

Nigeria is remarkably diverse. Whether you consider, ethnicity, religion or culture, you will find such incredible diversity that makes you wonder how this collection of peoples could possibly have lived together for a century.

A few days after the figures of Nigeria’s rebased GDP were made public last week, “The Punch” newspaper carried a very frightening front page story about a young unemployed Nigerian, Sunday Omotayo, who wanted to commit suicide.

Everybody knows what happened in Rwanda in 1994, right?

INTRODUCTION