UK urged to review laws after Palestine Action placard arrests!
Photo credit: Middle East Eye The UK has been asked to review its protest laws by Europe’s most senior human rights lawyer, Michael O’Flaherty. The Guardian reports that O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights, said that the current legal framework allows authorities in the UK to “impose excessive limits on freedom of assembly and expression, and…
Spain’s radically different approach to African migration!
Photo credit: BBC Spain is charting a different course from the prevailing political mood among Western nations regarding migration and polices concerning the African continent. The country remains committed to continued expansion, while the US, the UK, France and Germany are all cutting back their development and budgets. Madrid has been hosting an African Union-backed “world conference on people…
Word of the day: astute
astute: adjective having or showing shrewdness and an ability to notice and understand things clearly; mentally sharp or clever also: CRAFTY, WILY
Open Letter To Fela – Adewale Sobowale
Kalakuta Annex,Heavenly Kingdom. Kalakuta Republic,Idi Oro,Nigeria. Eleniyan,How you dey? Se all de Lady dey ok. I mean your queenly queens. I sure say you no be Gentleman for heaven. In your last letter, you talk say Expensive Shit dey worry you. Maybe na because of the Water No Get Enemy wey you take. Wetin go…
Did We Waste Them? – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: YouTube If Fela had been alive, he ought to have been seventy nine today. I mean our own Fela would have been seventy nine years old today. He lived his life struggling. Indeed, the struggle, our struggle, was his life. Good enough, he did not walk the treacherous way alone. He did in…
Abami Eda! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: IMDB A leta to Fela!! Dear Baba 70, I wan jollifficate with you on your eightieth birthday. You know say all de tins wey you sing about still dey happen for Nigeria, even Africa. Dem com dey yarn say you be prophet. Dem no know say na angel you be. Sebi dem tell…