June 18
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The Journey to Harvard. Become Small, So You Can Grow [opinion]
The Star
It's sort of difficult to explain my journey, mentally and physically, to Harvard. The number of people who've walked the two-year journey with me and those who've pushed me along... Read more »
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Can Your Ex Be Your Clande? [column]
Capital FM
I used to think that chics who messed around with their exes had issues. That was up until I woke up in my ex's bed this morning and wished I could slap myself across the face real... Read more »
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The Promise of Africa, Real or Mere Optimism? [opinion]
The Star
Is Africa rising? Judging by the buzz and optimism of the young business leaders and political trailblazers from across the continent who gathered for the World Economic Forum on... Read more »
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A Hundred Years After the 1913 Land Act [opinion]
SACSIS
In 1652, the year that Jan van Riebeck first stepped on to these shores, Gerrad Winstanley, an English radical, published a pamphlet called The Law of Freedom in a Platform. Three... Read more »
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Reps' Proposed Impeachment How-To 101 [opinion]
Daily Trust
The legendary Bill Shankly managed Liverpool Football Club during their heydays in the 1970's. Back then just like Manchester United today, Liverpool won everything in sight.... Read more »
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Keep Ovamboland Pristine and Primitive [column]
Namibian
NOW that we have your attention we may proceed. It is Chapter Four of Vision 2030 that deals with the quality of lives of Namibians. Read more »
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Constitutional Role for Civil Society-Media Organisations(2) [opinion]
Vanguard
It was against the background of "light", which in modern times we could term transparency that the work of creation began on earth. We can deduce that without transparency as a... Read more »
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What Role for Scholars Under the Next Administration? [column]
Namibian
THE role of intellectuals, or scholars to be more specific, because Gramsci, who was one of the individuals helped to concretise that term used it much broadly to include a whole... Read more »
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Stiffer Laws Against Counterfeits Needed [opinion]
Times of Zambia
THE observation by the Patents and Companies Registration Agency (PACRA) that Government is losing huge sums of money through pirated products is not only timely but raises serious... Read more »
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Bring Manifestos, Not Court Battles [opinion]
The Herald
The die is cast about elections, but what is missing are the manifestos so that voters can digest what every political party stands for in these important elections, which will... Read more »
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Myths of Media, Security Reforms [column]
The Herald
In Africa, particularly in countries that are viewed to be anti-West, such as Zimbabwe, non-state actors are proclaimed to be apolitical and non-partisan in nature. These... Read more »
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What Does Isa Yuguda Want? (II) [opinion]
Daily Trust
Malam Isa Yuguda was also quoted as saying: "He (Jang) hadn't an idea what was happening. He never told anyone that he was interested in the chairmanship". Why were Yuguda and his... Read more »
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Wamakko May Be Jonathan's Albatross [opinion]
Daily Trust
The recent suspension by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of two of its member governors, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers state and Sokoto state's Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko,... Read more »
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Poverty and Inequality Are Not Solved By Mere Growth [column]
Daily Trust
It would have been funny watching Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's theatrics except for the tragic implications that she neither understood the issues nor appreciated what... Read more »
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Our National Character of Demerit [opinion]
Premium Times
The recent cut-off marks for admission into Unity schools for different states of the federation got me thinking. A male child from Yobe who scores 2 marks out of 200, yes! 2 out... Read more »
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That Minister's Paper On Health [opinion]
Daily Trust
I sat down among the audience at the just concluded Women Deliver Conference in Kuala lumpur , Malaysia to listen to the paper presented by the Nigeria's Minister of State for... Read more »
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Who Really Are Abuja Indigenes? [opinion]
Daily Trust
Nigerians of all shades of opinions who answered the clarion call to come to Abuja, the nation's capital to contribute to its development, have different notions about the land... Read more »
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Mobile Phone As a Urine Laboratory [opinion]
Premium Times
Twelve years ago, while searching for my undergraduate project at the Bayero University, Kano, I came across a book entitled Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate... Read more »
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Rethinking the Plight of Teachers [opinion]
The Point
We have over and over stated in these pages that teaching is arguably one of the least attractive professions in the country. Read more »
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Diaspora Oppositions - All Hat, No Cattle [opinion]
Addis Fortune
The dilemma of narrowing and bridging the yawning gap between Diaspora opposition (I prefer "diasposition") politics and the realities on the ground has never been more... Read more »
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I Salute Martin Amidu [opinion]
Ghanaian Chronicle
For God and country, I salute beleaguered and disowned former Attorney-General, Mr. Martin Amidu. His successful lone crusade to seek a refund of $47m to the state from plunderers... Read more »
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Fears Over Nile [opinion]
Addis Fortune
There is an old saying in Ethiopia, which roughly translates as - "Nile has no home of its own, and yet it carries much luggage with it". That is to imply that, knowing nothing of... Read more »
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What Is Stunting Our Democracy? [opinion]
Leadership
Where are the people? Why can't they let their voices be heard on issues of governance? - Nigerian legislator Read more »
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On Abyei Enough Is Enough [opinion]
Sudan Tribune
No one whether locally or internationally can still argue there is more hope to resolve Abyei stalemate peacefully. It has been everybody's wish that dialogue could prevail over... Read more »
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South Sudan Will Be a Good Spectator, While Its Oil Follows [opinion]
SSNA
President al Bashir's outburst at a rally in Khartoum North on 8 June, 2013 was yet one in hundreds of occasions on which he often gets carried away by not exactly a bravado so as... Read more »
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