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Christian Madu versus Mensah, by Emeka Obasi

Ghanaians regard Robert Mensah as their best goalie, ahead of Edward Doodo Ankrah, John Naawu, Joseph Carr, John Baker and Richard Kingston. One man who found a way round the goalie was Christian Madu, a Nigerian born in Kumasi. Madu’s salad days in the Gold Coast were spent with his parents, Herbert and Ezinne, who […]
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Women, sex and power

HARVEY Weinstein has denied all nonconsensual sex. But he seems to be accused of “sexual assault and inappropriate sexual behaviour”. What are we talking about? And he is ostracised not really for making love or having sex with these accusers but for masturbating in front of some, wearing a bathrobe, etc.

Oxford as Numero Uno

THE medieval city of Oxford (population 170,000), is just 92 km from London.  The Victorian English poet Matthew Arnold famously described it as the “city of dreaming spires”.  Looming large over the city is the university that bears  its name, founded in the twelfth century – the oldest in the English-speaking world.

Slaves in our Papa’s Land

Libya is a conflict economy in which everything including human beings are commodified; it is ruled by violence and the persons who can muster the most violence, get away with anything

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