British journalist Mark Doyle is on record as one of the outstanding, but very few, “engendered species” of foreign correspondents who reported on and in Africa, its people, and conflicts from the heart, with understanding and empathy. Other survivors from the old brigade of news hunters, whom I can...
Paul Ejime
The death of 37 suspected illegal miners, mainly youths in the detention facility of Nigeria’s Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in the northern state of Niger, has elicited widespread condemnation and public outrage, with the NGO Centre for Community Law, Amnesty International, Nigeria, and the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) among organisations calling...
By PAUL EJIME Odoo is a business management software suite developed in Belgium. But its advert billboard often reminds me of Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s popular song with the same acronym. O. D. O. O, or Overtake Don Overtake Overtake, is the title of Fela’s 1989 album, which, like most of his revolutionary songs,...
In addition to the obnoxious apartheid system practised by the White minority population in South Africa, xenophobic attacks or what many call Afrophobia, have also earned the Rainbow Nation international notoriety. The attacks by largely ill-informed South African Blacks against foreigners, especially citizens from countries that midwifed South Africa’s...
The Sahel region, including a large part of the ECOWAS space, bears the unenviable badge of the “epicentre of global terrorism.” The attendant insecurity is compounded by poor and failed governance systems, resource mismanagement, the effects of climate change and geopolitical shifts, among the uncertainties challenging the world order....
In life and more so in death, Pope Francis earned universal respect for enthroning humility, simplicity, courage, and love for the poor and the marginalised, during his 12-year papacy marked by exemplary evangelical leadership. More than 50 heads of state, 10 reigning monarchs, some 250 cardinals, 400 bishops and...