Racism’s Big Comeback In America
Racism’s Big Comeback In America America is returning to what it once was. Unfortunately, I’m not referring to its dominance as the world’s only super power or its economic peak, […]
Monthly Archives: June 2013
The US-Africa Relationship By The Numbers
The cost of President Obama’s eight-day trip to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania has raised the ire of deficit hawks ever since the Washington Post broke news of the trip. […]
Krobo People Of Ghana: Beads And Initiation Rites
The Krobo people are grouped as part of Ga-Dangme ethnolinguistic group and they are also the largest group of the seven Dangbe ethnic groups of Southeastern Ghana. They are farming […]
My Thoughts On Chinelo Okparanta’s “America”
I’ve joined a group of bloggers to review the Caine Prize 2013 shortlisted stories. More feedback and reactions on ZunguZungu. Now, we’re reviewing America by Chinelo Okparanta. Chinelo Okparanta’s […]
Travel Postcard: 48 Hours In Benin’s Voodoo Heartland
(Reuters) – The small club-shaped West African country of Benin is not on most tourists’ radar but its palm-fringed white sand beaches in the south and surprisingly good wildlife parks […]
Ikhide Ikheloa: Notes From My Middle Passage
Nothing could prepare me for America, writes Ikhide Ikheloa The Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has said that she did not realize she was black until she came to America. […]
Mandela Can Leave Us In Peace, His Work Is done
The notion that SA will dissolve into race riots at the news of Nelson Mandela’s death is so unlikely as to be ridiculous, writes Verashni Pillay. News that our beloved […]
Returning Home
Nigerians abroad are returning home in droves and some are settling in Abuja, writes Chinelo Onwualu The story is a familiar one. During the political and economic crises of the […]
This American Life By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo
You come to America, young and dashing, on full scholarship, finish school, get a great job, marry a glamorous spouse, have cute children, and retire at a young age with […]
PRESS 1 IF YOU DID NOT EAT YESTERDAY
How can aid groups track data on food security in huge country with hardly any functioning infrastructure like the Democratic Republic of Congo? The World Food Program has launched a pilot project […]
RIP Michael Hastings. Here’s His Advice to Young Journalists.
Michael Hastings, a respected young journalist for Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed, was killed in a car accident in Los Angeles Tuesday, according to his boss, BuzzFeed Editor in Chief Ben Smith. Hastings, who was 33, was […]
UNHCR: Africa Refugee Crisis Overshadowed by Syria
GENEVA — The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says the plight of millions of refugees and displaced people in Africa is being overshadowed by the crisis in Syria. To mark World Refugee […]
Nigeria’s Out-of-School Children
In this season of high wire politicking, it probably means nothing to the Nigerian ruling elite. But the social consequences might sooner, rather than later, come to consume them. According […]
