Opinion

COVID-19 is severely testing Africa’s social, economic and political resilience. While it is true that our countries are taking bold actions to slow down and contain the spread of the virus, it is also undeniable that recession looms in our continent.

The Central African sub region is one of the areas most exposed to an economic recession. We face a double danger. On the one hand, we are fighting COVID-19 with a scarcity of financial resources and fragile health systems. On the other hand, we are trying to mitigate the adverse economic effects of this pandemic, and safeguard our economies …

It is no news that Africa and Africans have suffered and continued to suffer the double misfortune of, being underappreciated and despised. In spite of stupendous continental impact and individualistic human achievements in every area of human endeavors, both in the past and now the present. Foreshorteness continues to trail Africa’s contribution in the human histories.
The European invasion carpeted the black, for their own elevation. They inserted themselves in an overrated picture after African histories had been destroyed and their particularistic features ceded. Perilously Africa had been plunged into patrilineal self-abnegation and condemnation since the unhallowed contact with Westerners, …

•Inspired by Dr. MarkAnthony Nze’s
“Perversion Of African History By Euporeans”

Igbo wiseman will always tell you: Onye chefuru ochie ohuru agaghi akpo ya ihu which roughly translates ‘ one who fails to appreciate the good past will live to experience an awful present. Similarly what Ba’ al Shem Tov emphasized in a more cautioning language “ Without memory there can be no redemption”

It’s heartbreaking when Africans begin to blame witches, sin, and ancestral curses as their woes of life, failing to understand that Africa and its roots had been ransacked and uprooted, and replaced with Western deuces.…

As this week may yet witness rise in new cases of the COVID-19 pandemic that has significantly challenged the wit of government’s officials in recent weeks, there are indications that em­ployers of labour, after the crisis, may not be smiling when it comes to making the hard decision to part ways with an unimaginable number of their employ­ees, going by insight from economic and corporate data.

While the unusual circumstance of negative threat of mass sack of workers may not be good news to workers, many players in the industry say it is an indi­cation of more bleak days ahead, …