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The lie of [Nigeria's] tertiary education - Tola Adenle
Reblogged from emotanafricana.com: idea whose time should come back? TOLA, December 9, 2011.] ======================== It is very apparent that students are not learning much in our universities...
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Third World sensitivities beneath a façade of First World sensibilities –...
I am sure there must be millions like me around the world. Born and raised in countries of the world where poverty and its fellow traveler, diseases, have always reigned supreme, we’ve clawed our...
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Explosions rock Boston as the world watches in horror – again – the...
Picture from The Jakarta Globe shows Emergency personnel at the Finish Line. There are reports of two dead and over a hundred injured as the Annual Boston Marathon’s finish line was rocked by two...
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Three Lessons Achebe Taught Me – Omoshalewa Ashimi
Chinua Achebe has been described as “the grandfather of African fiction” who “lit up a path for many others.” I met this extraordinary Nigerian novelist, poet, and professor when I read his debut...
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Two with roots that stretch to Nigeria & Ghana on 2013 British “Granta Best...
To those readers who might have read this since it was posted Monday, the title back then missed an important word and had to be taken down just now. TOLA. While Nigerians are still reveling in the...
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U.S. Supreme Court Justices Bar Nigerian Human Rights Case From U.S. Courts –...
Here’s a short note I sent to a friend who forwarded the link below to me which I received just now: ” … I saw the headline and skipped but now that you’ve sent it, I will read it and perhaps use it....
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Western paternalism & mercantilism by Coca-Cola a reminder of America’s...
Check out this post on one of my favorite blogs, The Kente Weavers. Coke may be “IT” in raking in scads of cash but was also IN IT during a period up to post-World War II , a period described as...
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Boston Bomb Victim in Photo Helped Identify Suspects – Bloomberg.com
By Asjylyn Loder & Esmé E. Deprez Bloomberg.com Apr 19, 2013 8:49 Eastern Standard Time http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-19/boston-bombing-victim-in-iconic-photo-helped-identify-attackers.html
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DV-Lotteries that are often pathway for Africans & Caribbean nationals to...
Black Caucus troubled by Senate plan to replace ‘diversity’ visas – The Hill http://thehill.com/homenews/house/294853-black-caucus-concerned-by-end-of-diversity-visas-in-senate-immigration-bill By...
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One more reason to “treat greed in Africa as a war crime”?
On whose side would you be: Madonna’s or Malawian Prez, Joyce Banda’s? The title & tantalizing question-as-title are mine, the short story is Mr. Liddle’s. TOLA. From Rod Liddle, The [London]...
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Boston Marathon Terror update: Second evil brother captured!
Boston police: ‘CAPTURED!!!’ By Sheldon Alberts, Daniel Strauss and Jonathan Easley – 04/19/13 11:25 PM ET...
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Most Yoruba males complete their looks – most looks – with Fila – Tola Adenle
Oba Adenle sat for this portrait wearing an Abeti Aja fila sewn from damask fabrics although he had the sanyan fila of the same aso oke. Yoruba older men sometimes complete their outfits this way by...
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The lie of Nigeria’s education: Benue library made its last book purchase...
This is a new one on me: a library without new acquisition after the initial fanfare of inauguration! Here are a couple of questions for Benue State & others like it in Nigeria’s wasteland: 1....
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Tanker fire guts 70 houses in Ibadan – Sahara Reporters
http://saharareporters.com/news-page/tanker-fire-70-houses-burnt-ibadan-25-houses-and-45-shops-gutted-so-far
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Strangers Donate Dream Wedding to Bride With Cancer – By Beth Greenfield,...
Of the thousands of weddings that no doubt took place in the U.S. on Sunday, there was at least one—between Jennifer Batugo and Brian Gargano, held in a picturesque Japanese garden on a Los Angeles...
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The rise of puritan supremacists in modern Islam – Abdsalam Ajetunmobi
I’ve excerpted below Khaled Abou El Fadl’s recent opinion on the corruption of modern Islam by the worldwide Islamic radicals. El Fadl is an Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of...
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Gender in Nigeria Report 2012: Improving the lives of girls & Women in...
http://www.britishcouncil.org.ng/files/2012/12/GenderReport-full.pdf You may also wish to check out:...
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Hydra-headed contemporary terrorism calls for many approaches in the war...
When is an act of violence that of terrorism and when is it just a plain heinous one? This is one question that does not lend itself to rigid answers. In fact, the flexibility of the answers had...
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Wrapping guns and crosses in American flags enables America’s ultra-right to...
The Guardian Tuesday 23 April 2013 10.49 EDT The rightwing donors who fuel America’s culture wars In general, US public opinion is trending liberal. Not that you’d know it from state legislatures...
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Update on “Most Yoruba males complete their looks – most looks – with Fila –...
April 24, 2013 http://emotanafricana.com/2013/04/20/most-yoruba-males-complete-their-looks-most-looks-with-fila-tola-adenle/ For those who have read this earlier in the week, a reader has sent me...
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