Category: Essays
Fatherhood and family from a Caribbean perspective
Any scholarship on fatherhood or any exploration of family migration from a Caribbean perspective can best be articulated within the framework of slave experience to the new world.
Read MoreChallenging The Useless Visions of Fraudulent Minds
From time to time we need to remind the Nigerian government about its ugly face both literarily and by implications of socio-economic parameters. The biggest scam in Nigeria today is the unrealistic 7-point agenda.
Read MoreReflection On Karl Marx Thesis On Religion
Karl Marx was a very religious man. Why do I say so? When he was alive and bubbling with very solid ideas, he hated cheating. He hated poverty. He hated exploitation of labour by capital.
Read MoreThe STATE In A Capitalist Nigeria
“In a society riddled with colonial contradictions, the resolving of one contradiction creates new ones becausecolonial contradiction is better resolved more by elimination than by substitution.” Late Prof. Mike Onwuejeogwu
Read MoreAspects Of “Maternal Home System” In African Tradition
“A contested culture”, says Frantz Fanon, “is a dead culture”. Period! The “Maternal home system”, just like the African extended family system that I’d written about in the past should be of research interest to scholars and individuals who are
Read MoreThe tribal emancipation of ndi Igbo from northern domination -part 3
In my last epistle, I made effort to answer the question, ‘where do you go from here?’ No one can know where to go without first knowing where he is. For when you know where you are then you will
Read MoreIn A Lighter Mood: City Of Jos As A Holiday Resort
This is an attempt at packaging, re-packaging, branding and re-branding the city of Jos after the last disturbance involving the indigenes and the Hausa/Fulani settlers that left scores of people dead and properties destroyed.
Read MoreReforming Police and Policing Reforms.
I have watched and heard a lot about the recommendations of the police reform committee chaired by M D Yusuf. I also watched a programme on AIT (Focus Nigeria) on the 21st April 2009 were the chairman of the police
Read MoreIgbo belief system and its nomenclatural anthropomorphism
The principle of individuation can said to be synonymous to Igbo belief system because a reality remains in the mind or in the world of forms according to Plato, except when it has been differentiated from other realities by assigning
Read MoreReflections On “Serial Marriage” And Polygyny
There are two programmes I have always enjoyed but recently stopped watching on British television and they are: the ITV/Jeremy Kyle and Channel Five/Trisha Goddard shows.
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