Opinions & Articles
There is something fundamentally wrong with the current approach of the Black Lives Matter movement. It is marching the streets of the US and Europe asking the perpetrators and beneficiaries of racism to willingly give up their privileges. It is pressing for legislation and “reforms” to change human attitudes. Both are not likely to happen, however well-intentioned. It is like taking painkillers in the hope of treating a brain tumor.
This is not an undercover report by BBC. This is an open cover report by a Nigerian citizen in distress. Recently, my WhatsApp number was hacked into by cyber criminals who went on to use my ID to solicit funds for a childish Ponzi scheme from my chat groups. Luckily, no one was fooled.
Spring is a season of transition. It brings forth the first flicker of warmth, after the chills of a frigid Winter. It is a time when fresh flowers bloom and new leaves sprout. It is a period when strong ice melts and frozen earth thaws. Days become longer and nights, shorter.
African Americans and Africans in America are two peoples from the same root that were separated by an ugly history, and now live alongside each other in America with sometimes palpable smoldering tension between them. This tension, sometimes barely below the surface, is so real that the two groups often walk on eggshells whenever they are around each other.
The recent gruesome murder of African American George Floyd by three White policemen is a timely reminder of how little the world has really changed. And how, almost certainly, this will not be the last scandal.
I have been married to a lawyer for over a decade, yet I have never had an opportunity to witness a court session
By Victor Anazonwu It is now close to one year since former Zimbabwean leader, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, passed on in September 2019, raising fresh dust on what kind of leader …
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending – C.S LEWIS”
