Black Americans Free To Give Thanks, Even During Slavery
You’ll be hard pressed to find the face of an African-American in any artistic depiction of that all-too familiar feast of 1621-, like the one where a group of Plymouth […]
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Africa: how to be an expert
Pick a theme. Generalise. Network with celebrities and stay ideologically fashionable. Avoid complexity and above all, never consult the vast body of literature on the continent “Thinking Africa” is complicated, […]
Flooding In My Hometown
For the past six weeks, I’ve been devouring news of the flooding in Nigeria. My hometown in Nigeria’s Ogbaru Local Government Area (LGA) in Anambra State was one of the […]
Obama’s 2012 Acceptance Speech
OBAMA: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting […]
Obama Never Saved Africa
Three years after Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on January 20, 2009, many Africans have fallen out of love with the […]
