À tous mes frères Africains Chers fils et filles d’Anowa Les Grands fils d’Oduduwa Et dignes filles d’Adroa Vos aïeux sont engendrés par Bumba Sur le regard vigilant du maître Anansi Alors que son cousin Kraag écoute La douce musique de Nana-Bukulu Et, quand Muwa-Lisa commençait encore La formation de nos lumières primordiales Il convoqua notre astucieux grand frère, GU Et, lui légua notre spiritualité et nos philosophies Ubuntu, notre philosophie fondamentale...
Africa is blessed with varied languages and cultures, but her diversity has never been transformed into richness. She has been bleeding since she was fragilized by the colonial system and its post-colonial mismanagement. The blatancy of her fragility is so aberrant that she cannot even define her stand on issues like literature and religion. She has been so dealt with that she ignores how to value her cultures and languages. In his...
Nigerian musicians are full of surprises. They sing in all sorts of languages, ranging from the vernaculars through pidgin to well-polished English. But what is easily ignored is that there is a symbiosis between their music and our social norms. They interact in such a way that each one of them influences the other. Society tries to adapt to what they propose to her, and the musicians also try to adjust their...
Do not suppose that I have come to flatter the ego of your preachers. I did not come to promote their trade but to ask you to question their words. I have come to turn the acolytes against the deacons, the Christian mothers against the elders, the choristers against the choirmaster, and the ushers against the general overseers. For the hour has come when the enemies of the pastors and parish priests...
« You were told by the Zarathustra of old, lo, I teach you the Superman: he is that lightning, he is that frenzy! but I say to you, lo, I teach you the Oedipus: he is that father killer, the ideal counterculture hero that you lack most. But hope not that he has come to marry his mum, for she is the next target on his list. » In my last publication,...
Jadis on se méfiait de lui, aujourd’hui il est cité comme l’un des leadeurs africains le plus sollicité ! En Afrique même, les intellectuels le citent comme exemple à copier. Dans son pays, il est presque adoré; il est tout simplement une doctrine, une philosophie voire une religion… Ancien Rebel qui a pris la commande en 2000 du bateau de ce pays autre fois nommé Ruanda-Urundi et qui l’a tellement transformé au...
La 12ème édition des Journées Africaines a eu lieu du 28 au 29 Mai, 2016. Cette 12ème édition intitulée « tous ensemble » s’est focalisée sur la richesse des valeurs africaines, la paix, le respect et la solidarité. Elle était organisée dans le cadre de la journée mondial de l’Afrique qui a lieu le 25 Mai de chaque année. En effet, l’histoire de la journée mondiale africaine nous renvoi au 25 Mai,...
Have you heard about The Institute for Industrial Technology (IIT) Lagos? I never did till some months ago. In one of our forums, I heard from a good friend and brother of a centre located in Lagos where young engineers are formed in a very short period of time. I thought it was one of the make-believe centres where guys are assembled to learn how to make pure water and the related...
The love of my life has gone to join the Lord The Funeral In Pictures VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL Engraved in my heart is, and will forever be, that night I received the news of your sudden and solemn demise. It sounded like a joke, nay, like an expensive prank. It first stroke me like a thunderstorm and like a child I was so confused that I could not imagine what...
Everybody is now twitting, facebooking, blogging and posting on the discussion between Obama and Uhuru Kenyata on gay rights. Yes it is making headlines and the media house and others will continue to analyse it, rebroadcast it, repost retweet it, review it and even telecast. They will conduct interviews on it, make a round table discussion, conduct forums on it, modify their journal contents to include the issue, columnist will twist it,...
