Tag: Africans
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Smart Europeans, daft Africans – By Owei Lakemfa
Smart Europeans. After building their wealth from resources taken from the colonies, including gold, diamond, rubber, cocoa, cotton and human beings, they decreed that the only way to prosperity is through ‘market forces’. They taught gullible Africans that only the perfect market delivers, while state intervention stagnates.
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Africans in conversation with their Cuban brothers and sisters, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa AFRICAN leaders including former Presidents Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique, Sam Nujoma of Namibia, Pedro Pires of Cape Verde, and Cuban solidarity movements in 23 African countries were last Thursday, October 7, 2021 engaged in conversations with Cubans on their collective past and future. It was not the usual intercontinental summit of states…
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Why Africans must henceforth reject Black identity – Oyakhilome
Founder, Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome says it is high time Africans should stop claiming to be black as black signifies absence of direction and evil. He said the toga: ‘Black lives matter’ should stop, as Africans were not black. In a monitored telecast to members of his church, Oyakhilome said “Maybe I should tell…
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US artistes only interested in us for retweets-Samklef
Ace music producer, Samklef has averred that American artistes pretend to care about Africans for retweets. In a video shared on his Twitter page, the music producer said it is disastrous that many Africans have continued to fall for the various stunts used by American artistes just to gain attention. Samklef claimed majority of the…
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In Africa, Trump’s Fate Is Worse Than A Laughing Stock – Azu Ishiekwene
Azu Ishiekwene In a recent article in The Atlantic also widely used elsewhere, American journalist, Anne Applebaum, described the pathetic meltdown of US President Donald Trump, especially since the outbreak of the global health crisis, COVID-19. According to the journalist, not only has Trump become the butt of jokes in video games, the US President’s…
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NIS clears air on visa on arrival for Africans policy
The Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammed Babandede, has said the visa on arrival for holders of passports of African countries from January 2020 was to accelerate African Integration. A statement in Abuja by Sunday James, the NIS Public Relations Officer, quoted Babandede as saying the decision would remove barriers hindering free movement of…
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FG adopts ‘no visa’ Policy for other Africans visiting Nigeria
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) said the Federal Government has approved that all Africans could come to Nigeria without Visa from January 2020. The Comptroller General, NIS, Mr Muhammad Babandede, disclosed this at the inauguration of the Africa–Frontex Intelligence Community (AFIC) on Wednesday in Abuja. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that European border and…
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Review: Beyonce delights Africans with Lion King, the Gift Album
The Bey Hive was feeling the love Friday over Beyonce’s release of the album “The Lion King: The Gift,” which the pop queen dropped as a sister piece to her new film, a remake of the Disney classic. Beyonce dubbed the 27-track album she curated and produced “a love letter to Africa,” enlisting several African…
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Africans and narratives on Liberty, By Bobson Gbinije
By Bobson Gbinije “That this nation under God, shall Have a new birth of freedom, And the government of the people, By the people, and for the people, Shall not perish from the Earth” ABRAHAM LINCOLN (THE GETTYSBURGH ADDRESS, 1863) Despotism has a promethean and phoenix-like characteristic. Its vulpine temperaments make it draconic and long…
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Fake Buhari UN speech in circulation, Presidency says
The Nigerian government has said a fake text of President Muhammadu Buhari’s speech to be delivered at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday is making the rounds online. The government, however, did not give the details of the content of the ‘fake speech’. President Buhari is currently in New York for the 72nd General…