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Ramaphosa Must End The Excuses And Save South Africa

No More Excuses: Ramaphosa Must Save South Africa Now!

March 6, 2023 5:13 am

If the term ‘crisis riddled’ were to be used to describe any country in the world right now, it would perfectly describe South Africa; and perhaps still won’t do justice to the situation.

South Africa is drowning in its problems, and there seems to be no anchor to save it. Unemployment is at an all-time high, electricity is worsening by the day, and the citizens are losing every atom of hope in the government.

Despite the implementation of the mandate of Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration, which is the Medium-Term Strategic Framework (MTSF), there is not much progress to be accounted …

Grammy Awards Femi Kuti Deserves To Be Honoured This Year

Grammy Awards: Femi Kuti Deserves To Be Honoured This Year

March 2, 2023 1:12 am

For many decades, Nigerian musicians have been doing the continent proud on the international scene, smashing new grounds and winning various international awards. Despite facing the ugliest odds, they have remained undaunted in their quest for every available laurel, especially the coveted Grammy Awards; sharing the African sound with the world and expanding the reach of the Afrobeat genre. 

It is without any iota of doubt that the Nigerian entertainment industry has come of age in recent times. The Nigerian music industry, specifically, has witnessed exponential growth over the years, and this ceiling-shattering growth has introduced a rising hunger …

Why Africa Needs to Collapse its Discriminatory Borders

Why Africa Needs to Collapse its Discriminatory Borders

February 28, 2023 4:18 am

Africa as a continent is not new to migration, but the situation surrounding migration within the continent never improves even after many years have passed. The International Organisation for Migration details that a ring network of traffickers and smugglers continues to facilitate irregular and illegal migration from Eastern Africa to the South of the continent.

These smugglers have unrefined and risky methods of transporting these migrants in order to avoid getting found out by the authorities. The methods are so dangerous that many migrants lose their lives in the process and never reach their proposed destination.

Africans migrate for so …

Does Paul Biya Want A Centenary Celebration As Leader

Does Paul Biya Want A Centenary Celebration As Leader?

February 23, 2023 4:26 am

African leaders have grown notoriety for a shameful sit-tight mentality in power that has given the continent a bad reputation. Most leaders who made it to leadership positions have become so used to what power denotes and connotes — hence they don’t joke with it, and Cameroonian leader Paul Biya is no exception.

Biya just recently celebrated his 90th birthday and despite the deteriorating state of his mental and physical health, he seems poised to celebrate his centenary birthday in office as President.

Reigning as the oldest leader in the world after the death of the Queen of England, Elizabeth …

Debt-Trap: Is Africa Trading Off It's Sovereignty To China?

Debt-Trap: Is Africa Trading Off It’s Sovereignty To China?

February 20, 2023 3:25 am

Over the last two decades, the economic relationship between China and many African countries has continued to flourish, alongside speculation that the Chinese government has a hidden agenda. Many see sovereign immunity clauses in Chinese loan agreements as a ploy to re-colonise Africa from the back, while others ask whether these loans form a debt-trap diplomacy.

Chinese engagement with African countries, as one of the country’s most important economic partners, has spanned over two decades, traversing trade, investment, infrastructural financing, and aid. During this period, China has catapulted from being a relatively small investor to the highest creditor in sub-Saharan …

Why Africans Must Learn To Tell Their Own Stories

Why Africans Must Learn To Tell Their Own Stories

February 16, 2023 3:21 am

When writing stories of your life, it has been often advised not to allow someone else to hold the pen. For many years, Africa has been making a fundamental mistake by largely giving life to the idea of the ‘West’ about Africa by conforming to the stories about the continent that are heavily laced with colonial struggles, conflict, identity crisis, and poverty. One thing that must be established is that while those stories still exist and might still be relevant, they shouldn’t exist as the only lens through which the entire African continent is viewed. 

Over the past few centuries, …

Can Paul Kagame's Exploits Becloud His Tyranny?

Can Paul Kagame’s Exploits Becloud His Tyranny?

February 13, 2023 3:28 am

It would be impossible to talk about African Politics and the bigwigs without mentioning the name Paul Kagame, and there are lots of reasons for this. It is given that the achievements of Kagame can be seen even by the blind, and will continue to be talked about in decades to come.

It was Kagame who commanded the rebel forces that fought to end Rwanda’s genocide over two decades ago, making him a saviour and a demi-god to many.

Since Kagame became Rwanda’s President in 2000, Rwanda has steadily become a major success story in Africa; one that continues

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Petrol Scarcity And The Depravity Of Nigerian Leaders

Petrol Scarcity And The Depravity Of Nigerian Leaders

January 30, 2023 4:25 am

It beggars belief how an oil-producing country like Nigeria has been enmeshed in a fuel crisis that has now spanned four months. It has been four months of pain, weeping, and gnashing of teeth for Nigerians who count for nothing in the minds of their leaders from every indication.

Africa’s most populous country and one of the largest producers of crude oil has been grappling with an economy-shattering scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit otherwise referred to as ‘PMS’ since the last quarter of 2022. Nigerians have simply lost count of the number of excuses that have been provided by different …

Edo Train Attack: A Case Of Coordinated State Failure

Edo Train Attack: A Case Of Coordinated State Failure

January 26, 2023 5:21 am

Terrorists, criminals, kidnappers, and non-state actors have never been this emboldened in Nigeria’s history. Almost like an ungoverned space, the Nigerian state is growing weaker by the day and the reality of the average citizen is becoming scarier. With Nigeria already exhibiting clear signs of State failure, it will only be a matter of time before Africa’s most popular country caves in and becomes a full-blown failed state if nothing drastic is done to curtail the pacy downward slide.

A few weeks ago, barely a year after the Abuja-Kaduna train attack, criminals struck again, this time they attacked a …

Why Africa Is The Only Continent That Can Survive By Itself

Why Africa Is The Only Continent That Can Survive By Itself

January 23, 2023 4:59 am

Over the past century, a number of narratives have been painted about Africa that, whether right or wrong, have contributed in no small measure to shaping the perception of the continent. Africa has been painted with narratives such as a child that is in dire need of development, an imminent threat, a rising economic power, a tinderbox of poverty, terrorism, forced migration, and deadly disease, and what have you. What some of the peddlers of these narratives have failed to do is to give Africa her full flowers and the due credit she deserves.

Despite the challenges Africa is facing, …

Japa Phenomenon Who Will Tell Nigerian Leaders The Truth

Japa Phenomenon: Who Will Tell Nigerian Leaders The Truth?

January 16, 2023 3:43 am

There is hardly a day that passes by in Nigeria without two things happening; one Nigerian ‘escaping’ the country and another starting the process to leave. That the so-called giant of Africa is losing the best brains that she requires to build a virile country is no longer news. Thousands of Nigerians of various classes, young, middle-aged, and adult, are currently in a crazy rush to leave the country either through employment opportunities, education, marriage, and for many, through illegal means and this has given rise to what many now refer to as ‘Japa’.

Over the last decade, ‘Japa’ which …

The Misinterpretation Of Feminism By Today's African Ladies

The Misinterpretation Of Feminism By Today’s African Ladies

January 12, 2023 3:27 am

Nothing on earth is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. For many years, a better percentage of African ladies have continued to embrace the erroneously flawed belief that feminism was all about an unseen rivalry between male and female genders. Anytime the concept of feminism comes into a conversation, they immediately conclude that they were up for some muscle-flexing game between opposing genders which is further fuelled by a desperate contrivance to bring men under control and end or suppress their chauvinistic posturing. This is all shades of wrong.

It is sad that people do not understand that …

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