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 […]
What the Vietnamese taught the Africans, by Owei Lakemfa
The world reset in 1945, or so it thought. The Second World War which had taken about ninety million lives, had come to an end. Humanity erupted in joy. To many of the colonized, it was a war for human freedom. But they were mistaken. The European powers that had ignited the war were the same […]
Red salute to Segun Osoba, leader of the Nigerian Left, by Owei Lakemfa
The 1970s to the 1990s were some of the most pitiless seasons in Nigeria. Except for a four-year interregnum, the military was in power and, it was brutal. In the mid-1970s, the seemingly genial General Yakubu Jack Gowon had radical activists like Edwin Madunagu and Tony Engurube detained without trial. But the Murtala-Obasanjo regime that succeeded Gowon […]
When countries steal, are they thieves? By Owei Lakemfa
The United States, US and some of its partners, notably the United Kingdom, UK went to Venezuela and carted away 13.5 kilograms of enriched uranium. The materials which can be used to fuel commercial nuclear plants or in research reactors, are from an inheritance research reactor in Venezuela. The research which was concluded in 1991 had […]
Minister Alausa: Little learning is dangerous, by Owei Lakemfa
In my second year at the University of Ife in 1979, two students from the Federal Government College, Kano joined the Faculty of Arts. Awam Ampah and Funso Alabi fitted in perfectly. I was so impressed that when I went for youth service in Kano, one of the first places I familiarized myself with was the school, […]
Africans shouldn’t join our xenophobic South African brothers in lunacy, by Owei Lakemfa
South Africa united Africa and the Black Race more than any other as we fought Apartheid, one of the most evil systems humans ever created. Apartheid was backed by some of the most powerful countries in the world such as the United States, United Kingdom and Israel which also practices an Apartheid variant called Zionism. But, […]
