To be dishonorable presupposes some acquaintance with honor. A person must understand the rule before choosing to step around it. Dishonor, therefore, carries at...
Some nations of consequence do not invite outsiders to scold, discipline, or parade their citizens for sport. They keep their dignity at home and...
In the humid memory of West Africa, where history walks barefoot through fever and survival, there exists a quiet inheritance written not in ink...
In this twenty-first-century world, it is about time that we all take an honest look in the mirror—that we see ourselves without cosmetic enhancements,...
On July 1, 2024, before the U.S. general presidential elections, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6–3 decision in Trump v. United States (No....
This Policy Transfers Wealth, Weakens Production, and Leaves Posterity to Pay the Price.
Ghana’s gold-for-forex scheme is presented as an anti-inflation measure. Upon examination, it...
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The ECOWAS That Died in Abuja: Nigeria, ECOWAS, and the Spell of Lawless Grandeur.
In West Africa, ECOWAS gathered in Abuja—like an ancestral ghost, blurring the borders of memory and power alike—to declare what it called a “regional...
Nigeria Has Grown Wings in Benin: Mandate or Masquerade? Rethinking ECOWAS Interventionism.
In West Africa—where the Harmattan wind scatters truths and lies with equal indifference—the Nigeria Armed Forces has finally become the thing we feared it...
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Some historians—gentle scribblers with trembling academic pens—have attempted to sketch a historiography of Africa's last five hundred years of civilizational mutilation. They summon the...
In 1970, in a sanctified Stanford laboratory adorned with the self-anointing glow of Western developmental psychology, Walter Mischel’s Marshmallow Experiment—an otherwise flimsy conjecture about...
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Why We Pick Bad Leaders: How Africa Lost Its Elite.
Long Version.
The savanna had a tradition. For so long, she demanded the blood of her best sons. Her covenant was simple: greatness must perish...
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President Mahama’s Golden Calf: The Idol of the Strong Cedi
The idol of a strong cedi inside a weak republic is not progress. It is apostasy. Ghana’s leaders are mistaking monetary illusion for economic...
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