Chika Ezeanya

October 2015 makes it three years since four undergraduate students of the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria were, on allegations of mobile phone and computer theft, brutally beaten and set ablaze in a low-income community plagued by unresolved crimes.

INTRODUCTION

Predictions are risky but necessary, and could promise a certain percentage of fulfilment, especially when drawn from rational analysis; available evidence and emerging trends indicate that the generation that will be in charge of Africa’s social, political and economic action spaces circa 2065 w

Several loud gunshots came from the vicinity of the school gate, followed by piercing cries from my schoolmates. Boko Haram. It was time to say our last prayers. I took what I intended to be one last look at the bed of my best friend and neighbor.

Much of the inhabitants of Africa south of the Sahara experience a mostly undiagnosed, but overwhelming sense of mental displacement.

January 2014 marks the 50th commemoration of the assassination of Patrice Emery Lumumba. Lumumba was one of the greatest forces behind the wrestling of independence from the unwilling hands of Belgian colonizers of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In a candid admission of the nation’s inability to independently and strategically channel its enormous resources towards advancement, the government of Nigeria announced the decision to privatize the country’s near-comatose refineries by 2014.

A petrified world watched as Thamsanqa Jantjie jabbed incoherent fists in the air by way of signing to deaf viewers during the Nelson Mandela Memorial.

With eyes filled with fear, the Burkinabe intellectual who offered to act as tour guide begged that his name not be mentioned in connection with Thomas Sankara. ‘It is forbidden to talk about him in this country,’ he emphasized repeatedly.