The kidnapping of 110 schoolgirls from Dapchi last month is the latest event to cast doubt on the Nigerian government’s claims that Boko Haram has been technically defeated. Unfortunately, the attack should have come as no surprise. Since 2015, the jihadist group has lost significant territorial control and no longer holds major cities. But as …
Winnie Mandela’s demise: 9 thought-provoking quotes that’ll stay glued to your heart by Tunde Ososanya
As the world mourns one of South Africa's freedom fighters, Winnie Mandela, highlights some of her thought-provoking quotes that she would be remembered for. Below are the quotes: 1. "To those who oppose us, we say, 'Strike the woman, and you strike the rock'." – 1966 2. "Together, hand in hand, with our matches and …
Winnie Mandela in six quotes – BBC
AFP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was a firebrand activist who fought the apartheid regime in South Africa. She was far more militant than South Africa's first black president, her ex-husband Nelson Mandela. She also became a critic of the African National Congress (ANC), the party to which she was fiercely loyal throughout her political life. Here is …
DĂ©jĂ vu as Strasbourg approves deportation of Nigerian drug trafficker By Clare Duffy
The European Court of Human Rights’s judgment in Ejimson v Germany (application no. 58681/12) has a whiff of Groundhog Day. For the second time in just over six months the court found that a Nigerian national convicted of drug-related crimes could not prevent deportation by relying on his relationship with his child. Crimes and deportation order Mr …
Martin Luther King Jr was a radical. We must not sterilize his legacy by Cornel West
The major threat of Martin Luther King Jr to us is a spiritual and moral one. King’s courageous and compassionate example shatters the dominant neoliberal soul-craft of smartness, money and bombs. His grand fight against poverty, militarism, materialism and racism undercuts the superficial lip service and pretentious posturing of so-called progressives as well as the …
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