Photo credit: Nairaland Although I’m not a particularly good dancer, I do enjoy great music. I love African music because it generally has meaning. That explains my love for the talking drum. It’s called the talking drum because it has messages embedded in it. One of the messages is, ‘To ba buru tan, iwo nikan…
Photo credit: Dreams Time You see when a person has been immersed in series of problems and he doesn’t know what to do again, one could safely say they’ve been infested with, ‘problemses’. Such people are accidents waiting to happen. Unfortunately, the more they think negatively about their so called problems, the more other problems…
The novel, ‘Cry the Beloved Country’ was written by Allan Paton in 1948 just before the inhumane apartheid policy was introduced in South Africa. I should think a quote from chapter 12 of the book is eminently relevant to our present situation in Nigeria. ‘ Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is…
Photo credit: Reuters Migrant crossings through the dangerous Darien Gap that connects Panama to Colombia are down by over a third in the year’s first nine monts, according to a Panamanian border official. Alexis de Gracia, head of the National Border Service’s eastern brigade ascribed the decrease to heightened security measures by the new government….
Photo credit: carbon brief The United States has announced its intention to back 2 permanent seats for African nations on the United Nations Security Council. Russia too has backed an African country to be a permanent member of the Security Council. However, the African countries will just be toothless bulldogs because they won’t have veto…
Photo credit: change.org Although underage marriage is illegal in South Sudan, is’s so commonplace that it hardly attracts significant attention. The Guardian reports that the case of 14-year-old Athiak Dau Riak is an exception. Her case has gone viral, polarizing her family and the country. Two men, Marial Garang Jil and Chol Marol Deng, two…
