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We are in an unusual era in Nigeria. In fact, I can venture to assert that we have never been here before. And if this is an unusual, indeed, unprecedented era in our national history, then it calls for an approach and also a form of sacrifice that are fittingly unmatched or unparalleled. What is …
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After a fiercely fought but decently conducted election, Ghana’s 7 December Presidential Election officially entered into second round amid praise and applause for the Electoral Commission of Ghana headed by Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan. As an observer of every single election in Ghana since 1992, the 2008 election promised all the elements of an election held …
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Recently, in conversations with Zimbabweans of the professional and salariat class, one got the impression that they have decided to leave the matter of Robert Mugabe to the care of time. Time, they insist, will take careKole Omotoso of him. This is the response one gets when one asks why Robert Mugabe has been …
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Back in 1989, in the heady days of the commotion in then Soviet Union and much of Eastern Europe, the hitherto unknownmaxim-uzoatu.jpg scholar, Francis Fukuyama published an essay entitled “The End of History?” in the American magazine, The National Interest. The article quickly made Fukuyama one of the most famous names in the 20th century, …
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The news reached me in Canada where I was participating in a conference whose theme, with a humiliating appropriateness was – UNDERSTANDING NIGERIA. I do not recollect when last I focused all my psychic energies so intensely on one objective only: that the news would not spread among our hosts, and local participants. There comes …
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