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A Mourning Note on Arthur Mbanefo, the Just Departing Odu of Onitsha

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Africa, Amb Tanko Suleiman, America, Apa State, Asia, Dr. Edwin Ogbu, French, G-8, Obama, OBASANJO, PR, Protocol, Queen Elizabeth 11, Russia, Thabo MbekiNo CommentsViews:
A Mourning Note on Arthur Mbanefo, the Just Departing Odu of Onitsha

By Adagbo Onoja Nigeria is not a merit-based system. The meritorious fellow is whoever the government of the day defines as such, irrespective of how distinguished the other guy is. Arthur M... Read more

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Remembering Late Dr. Tajudeen Abdulraheem in the Twilight of the Obama Presidency

Posted By: adminon: December 23, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Angela Davies, Ghandi, Historical personality, History laden cry, Maathai Wangari, Mandela, Obama, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tajudeen Abdulraheem, Talakawa Summit, The AtlanticNo CommentsViews:
Remembering Late Dr. Tajudeen Abdulraheem in the Twilight of the Obama Presidency

Remembering Late Dr. Tajudeen Abdulraheem in the Twilight of the Obama Presidency By Adagbo Onoja Although the world awaits the definitive characterization of the gubernatorial leadership in... Read more

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My President Was Black, (Part 3)

Posted By: adminon: December 19, 2016In: SpectacleTags: Ann Dubham, Dave Axelrod, Hybridity, Love, Nilotic, ObamaNo CommentsViews:
My President Was Black, (Part 3)

                                         My President Was Black, (Part 3) A history of the first African American White House—and of what came next By Ta-Nehisi Coates Photograph by Ian Alle... Read more

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My President Was Black, (Part 2)

Posted By: adminon: December 18, 2016In: SpectacleTags: Black president, Color line, DNC Speech, DONALD TRUMP, Hilary Clinton, Obama, Post-Racial AmericaNo CommentsViews:
My President Was Black, (Part 2)

                   My President Was Black, (Part 2)    A history of the first African American White House—and of what came next By Ta-Nehisi Coates Photograph by Ian Allen II. He Walked on... Read more

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My President Was Black

Posted By: adminon: December 17, 2016In: SpectacleTags: African-American president, BET, Chapelle, Farewell party, Michelle, Obama, WhitenessNo CommentsViews:
My President Was Black

              My President Was Black (Part 1) A history of the first African American White House—and of what came next This piece in the incoming edition of The Atlantic tells multiple stor... Read more

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Donald Trump Should Embrace a Realist Foreign Policy

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Afghanistan, Chicago, CHINA, DONALD TRUMP, East Asia, Egypt, Europe, Georgia, Germany, India, Iraq, ISIS, John J. Mearsheimer, Libya, Obama, Persian Gulf, Russia, Syria, UK, Ukraine, YemenNo CommentsViews:
Donald Trump Should Embrace a Realist Foreign Policy

Remember John J. Mearsheimer, the University of Chicago’s R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science who wrote, among others, The Tragedy of Great Power Politic... Read more

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In Death, the World Speaks the Truth About Fidel Castro

Posted By: adminon: November 26, 2016In: De-EscalationTags: America, Asia, Ayatollah Seyed Ali, Boris Johnson, British, DONALD TRUMP, El Salvador, Enrique Pena Nieto, Fidel Castro, Hage Geingob, Imran Khan, India, JACOB ZUMA, Ken Livingstone, Lord Peter Hain, Mexico, Michael Higgins, Namibia, Narendra Modi, Nicolas Maduro, Obama, Pakistan, Russian, South Afric, Venezuela, Xi JinpingNo CommentsViews:
In Death, the World Speaks the Truth About Fidel Castro

The global image of late Fidel Castro is now emerging in tributes to him by world leaders, spanning political, regional and sports chieftains. The tributes are pouring from all corners of th... Read more

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Africa’s is a Crisis of Contested Legitimacy -Tanzanian Opposition Leader’s Interview, Part 2

Posted By: adminon: November 21, 2016In: GovernanceTags: African, BOKO HARAM, Claude Ake, DONALD TRUMP, Europe, GATT, Ghana, Hilary Clinton, John Magufuli, Late Nelson Mandela, Liberia, NATO, Obama, Prof Richard, Professor Mwesiga Baregu, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, UNCTAD, USNo CommentsViews:
Africa’s is a Crisis of Contested Legitimacy -Tanzanian Opposition Leader’s Interview, Part 2

  By Adagbo ONOJA In part 1 of this interview published October 13th, 2016, Professor Mwesiga Baregu, political scientist and a leading opposition figure in Tanzania outlined the basis... Read more

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Trump Feared to Provoke Further Recession in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 20, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Asian, CHINA, DONALD TRUMP, Iran, Muhammadu Buhari, NIGERIA, Obama, Saudi Arabia, USNo CommentsViews:
Trump Feared to Provoke Further Recession in Nigeria

Contrary to presumptions that Donald Trump will not change US-Nigeria relation, analysts of global oil dynamics fear that the exact opposite could be the case.  The fear is that beyond susta... Read more

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Four scenarios for a Trump presidency

Posted By: adminon: November 17, 2016In: FlashbackTags: DONALD TRUMP, FBI, George W. Bush, GOP, Governor Edwin Edwards, Governor Huey Long, Mayor Buddy Cianci, Mayor James Curley, Mike Pence, Obama, Ronald Reagan, Russian, Vladimir PutinNo CommentsViews:
Four scenarios for a Trump presidency

Donald Trump is still the man of the moment globally. What he would do, what he wouldn’t do and and what he might be doing wrongly are still the stuff of sundry speculations. In this piece r... Read more

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