Author: Chidi Amuta
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The kidnapped nation – By Chidi Amuta
Two weeks ago, this column in a piece entitled “Neither at War Nor in Peace” lamented that Nigeria has entered a new normal. We are neither a nation at peace or in a declared war. Instead, we are perennially in a state of psychological and physical siege.
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The age of appearance – By Chidi Amuta
In the new world, we differ decisively from our children. We read and reflect; they see instant images and decide or judge based on appearances and move on. We are coming from the age of ideas nurtured by the culture of print.
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Neither at war nor in peace – By Chidi Amuta
Nigeria has hit another milestone. It has graduated into a hybrid state, a distinction it shares with very few other nations. Simultaneously, Nigeria is at war and in peace.
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Silence in Bethlehem, wailing in Gaza – By Chidi Amuta
The raging war between Israel and Hamas will not end before tomorrow’s Christmas is over. The unfortunate war has instead yielded two principal casualties: the first is the nativity festivals of Christmas which have made Bethlehem a favourite destination for Christian pilgrims.
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Beyond the Rivers of trouble – By Chidi Amuta
In my adopted home state of Rivers, they do not “play” politics. They wage bitter “fights”over politics. Political outcomes are more of spoils of murky wars than victories of democratic rituals. While the contest for power and supremacy rages, instruments of violence are fair.
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The President as African King – By Chidi Amuta
The size of President Tinubu’s delegation to the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai has raised a bit of dust. On closer examination, I think it was unnecessary noise based on incomplete understanding of the president’s sense of mission.
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TRIBUTE: Henry Kissinger, The Centurion’s Last Salute – By Chidi Amuta
When Henry Alfred Kissinger turned 100 on 27th May this year, I wrote this tribute in salute to a man who is undisputedly the greatest statesman and diplomatic centurion of the 20th and perhaps even the 21st century.
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How country now? – By Chidi Amuta
After the first six months in office, the Bola Tinubu presidency has spent enough time to acquire a definable footprint and an evolving identity. It now has a character, style and flavor.
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Nigerian Democracy and its deviants – By Chidi Amuta
The off cycle governorship elections in the three states of Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi have come to a rowdy and contentious end. As is typical of all Nigerian elections in recent times, the electoral battlefront may have paused in those states.
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Fiction, journalism and power – By Chidi Amuta
For some reason, Nigeria’s last election season defied all the ‘normal’ expectations and projections. It was like no season before it.