Calypso: Enslaved African gift and its Mighty Sparrow, by Owei Lakemfa
Slinger Francisco, better known as Mighty Sparrow, the “Calypso King of the World”, flew away on September 27, 2026. He was ninety. Calypso music was invented in the seventeenth century by African slaves in Trinidad who had mainly been taken from the Ibibio, Efik and Igbo peoples in present-day Nigeria and Congo. It is generally […]
The World Bank, IMF, WTO and other witchcraft organisations, By Owei Lakemfa
The World Bank’s Lead Economist for Nigeria, Alex Sienaert on Wednesday, December 13, 2023 said he was sniffing around for fuel subsidy that the Tinubu administration might still be paying. Like a headmaster warning an errant pupil, Sienaert told the Nigerian Government it does not appear to him that […]
Tinubu, appoint diplomats, not politicians to run our Missions, By Owei Lakemfa
The culture in Nigeria is that after Presidential Elections, politicians, hangers-on, propagandists, relatives and a rainbow of persons gather like ants over sugar. Primarily, the gathering is to partake of the honey which is how they see the emergent government. In fact, for many, elections are the best investment they can make, and they need to quickly recoup […]
Saving ECOWAS by applying the breaks in Niger Republic, By Owei Lakemfa
Yahaya Hashim, a quiet, reflective and highly analytical intellectual is a man I have learnt to listen to for over four decades. So I was not surprised when after all the drama over the July, 2023 coup in Niger Republic, including threats of invasion, sanctions, border closures, electricity cut-off, and a world that seemed to have moved […]
Taking the rocky path of struggle with Kokori, By Owei Lakemfa
I WAS a young Labour Reporter when I had my first encounters with Frank Ovie Kokori in 1984. He was a 41-year-old trade unionist who had been more of an industrial relations personnel. He had attended the University of Ibadan and worked with an industrial relations company owned by socialite and former trade unionist, Alhaji […]
Henry Kissinger: A curse on Africa, Asia and Latin America, By Owei Lakemfa
HENRY (Heinz) Alfred Kissinger, the most infamous United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, passed away peacefully at 100 on November 29, 2023 and is guaranteed a marked grave. Not so for the tens of thousands Africans, Latin Americans and Asians who experienced violent deaths in their youth and had no tomb stones […]
