Author: Nnamdi Frank Akwada

Conducting The Much Needed Autopsy Of The Buhari A

Monday, September 19, 2016
Most Nigerians from the various nationalities and religions have generalized aversions to hearing and acknowledging the truth though they are ever ready to place circumstances and events in the hands of their Gods. But the current reality is that the Buhari administration which many supported how ...

African American Insurgency Is Not Senseless

Friday, July 22, 2016
Agaaaain the news from Baltimore was not encouraging. How do folks insist on so-called law and order plus peace when the system is complicit in the structural normalizing of injustice? The claims within the American mainstream media and some politicians that recent actions by African American ins ...

Black Lives Matter! How Did We Get Here? How Do We Move On From Here?

Thursday, July 14, 2016
Last week Americans, immigrants, and other residents living within the United States from all works of life celebrated and/or traveled for the July 4th Independence Day holiday. This writer also journeyed to the Great smoky mountain of Tennessee to provide our family with some different dosage of ...

Addressing The Biafra And Niger Delta Conundrum

Thursday, June 16, 2016
Many Nigerians from various nationalities and foreigners have approached me about my thoughts concerning the on-going agitations of the people in Southern Nigeria otherwise known as Biafra aka Niger Delta. However, my reframe has often been that I have covered the topic of Biafra and the Niger De ...

Fuel Subsidy Magic

Saturday, May 21, 2016
Most evaluation of the fuel subsidy situation in Nigeria will quickly reveal the trails of betrayal and mysticism of white magic. Hell yeah that is the story of Africa in a nutshell. A place that flows with milk and honey though many indigenous people are forced to run away from the lands due to ...

What The Golden Eaglets Win At The Under 17 World Cup Tells Us About Nigeria

Sunday, December 27, 2015
About a month ago our young lads won the FIFA 2015 Under 17 (U-17) championship in Chile. Those Nigerian teenagers displayed their football supremacy by conquering teams from the rest of the world. In their final match they defeated Mali their fellow West Africans by a score of two goals to nil. ...

From African Queens To Dongonyaro Babes

Monday, August 17, 2015
When Mr. Innocent Idibia notably known as 2Face released his song African Queen in 2004, it soon became a worldwide mega hit and was rereleased by EMI records in 2006. That song and the video elevated Nigerian and African music to the top strata of YouTube downloads. The skillful production of th ...

General Buhari, Boko Haram, APC, and the Nigerian Elections analyzed through Dom

Sunday, April 12, 2015
The Nigerian elections in 2011 and 2015 have been historical watershed moments for the African continent and the African Diaspora. We have seen that relatively fair elections can be held in the most populous Black Country on earth and that political power can transfer from one party to another. Both ...

Ebola: The Most Untruth Story Of 2014

Tuesday, January 6, 2015
With nearly 10,000 people dead from Ebola and over 20,000 people infected with the Ebola virus in West Africa, Ebola remains the most misleading story of 2014. Are the biological crimes against humanity occurring intentionally or due to negligence? At the crux of the matter is how Ebola got to th ...

Are African Americans Really Americans?

Wednesday, December 17, 2014
There are the invocative feelings that comes with claiming the American citizenship. These emotions are prominent during the swearing in ceremonies of immigrants (with other national origins and tongues) as new citizens. However, those emotive reactions are clouded in the hype rather than the rea ...

Poverty And Crisis In Africa

Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Who benefits from the narratives of portraying more than a billion people as poverty stricken and an entire continent as nothing more than wastelands for numerous crises? These are questions that I have often pondered especially with my knowledge of the enormous wealth in most African countries a ...

Western (American and European) Guinea “Pigism” and the Collaboration of African

Thursday, October 23, 2014
The celebrations in Nigeria on the eradication of Ebola should be squared against the sad reality that about 1 million West Africans are expected to die by next year if the Ebola biological terrorism continues. Our speed to cheer is ill-advised if we do not get a foothold at the problem. The Econ ...

President Obama’s African Summit And The Vestiges Of Civilization

Friday, September 26, 2014
When regular folks and political pundits examine the past few months in Washington DC with the interplays of political maneuvering it might be tempting to score the Israeli carnage in Gaza or the United States re-intervention in Iraq as the crème de la crème of déjà vu policies. However, i ...
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