On 7 April 2016, I published an essay on Barack Hussein Obama entitled “‘African American son’: US foreign policy and Africa” (Pambazuka News, 7 April 2016).
Muhammadu Buhari
British Prime Minister Theresa May recently made a major declaration on the future of her country’s policy on foreign military intervention that mustn’t be crowded out in the current news cycle on the “furore” over entry limits/bans on travels to the United States.
Muhammadu Buhari, head of the Nigeria genocidist regime, was in Germany last week on a three-day “state” visit.
Tagged under Gender & Minorities Biafra war, Igbo Genocide, Muhammadu BuhariOver the years, it has been identified in countless studies that one of the core reasons Nigeria has failed to develop to its full potential is pervasive corruption.
Tagged under Democracy & Governance Nigeria corruption, Muhammadu Buhari, NigeriaBut theirs is not nostalgia for corruption per se but for a period in which, despite or because of corruption, the flow of illicit government funds created a sense of economic opportunity and prosperity.
Tagged under Democracy & Governance Nigeria corruption, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, NeoliberalismIn the light of almost two decades of horrendous governance under the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) administration, the call for change by a large section of Nigerians was expectedly overwhelmingly loud.
Tagged under Democracy & Governance Muhammadu Buhari, NigeriaSince the public presentation of the book We Are All Biafrans and the intervention of a former vice president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, who chaired the event and delivered a speech titled “Restructuring for Nigeria’s national unity” – a speech I recom
Tagged under Democracy & Governance Nigeria Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, Biafra warToday’s (Wednesday 18 May 2016) New York Times editorial has unambiguously called on the US government not to sell warplanes to the murderous regime.
Tagged under Pan-Africanism Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari, Igbo Genocide, Boko Haram