Dear Fausat Sulaiman, Salam alaikum, waramatulhi, wabaratuhu, Your comments on my contribution on the subject of hijab in schools make me think you are a somewhat boastful and rather pugnacious Muslim sister. I ask: where is your man? This is because you asked, “where are my women?” Because I am a Muslim, I am not […]
May 19, 2013
Coming: days of reckoning for Nigerian looters?
Protest rocks US Embassy in Abuja Christian Okeke -Abuja The Tribune, Friday, May 17, 2013 Protesters in their hundreds on Thursday stormed the United States Embassy in Abuja to seek foreign sanctions against perceived corrupt public officeholders including some serving cabinet ministers in the government of President Goodluck Jonathan. The protesters who were […]
May 18, 2013
“Hagiographers, foreign ‘African experts’ … have confined Chinua’s achievement space into a bunker over which hangs an unlit lamp labeled ‘Nobel’” – Soyinka
SaharaReporters Interview Exclusive: Achebe A Celebrated Storyteller, But No Father Of African Literature, Says Soyinka Sahara Reporters, New York, Saturday, May 18, 2013. Also: Why He Wished Achebe Had Not Written His Last Book; What He Told Ojukwu Before The War; Genocide, And Other Issues Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has described Africa’s most well known […]
May 18, 2013
Jeremy Affeldt’s story reminds me of the extremism of the Japanese for integrity, loyalty and honour – Dolapo Ajao
Comments on “I can’t take that money; I won’t sleep well at night … it’s not right” – Jeremy Affeldt” From my tolaadenle@emotanafricana.com Mail Box: The story about baseball player Jeremy Affeldt preferring integrity to unearned $500,000 in a contract mistake, reminds me of the extremism of the Japanese for integrity, loyalty and honour. A […]
May 18, 2013
Lock-out at University of Ado-Ekiti: Governor Fayemi, where are your “progressive” stripes? – Tao
I understand there is a lockout and cessation of teaching at the University of Ado-Ekiti (Unad) because MANY, NOT ALL STUDENTS HAVE NOT PAID THEIR DUES. The University is owned and managed by the government of Ekiti State where the main plume is marked as a rich source of higher-educated people per capita of the […]
May 17, 2013
South African police accused of brutality and torture: “This is not what we fought for” – Ronnie Kasrils
FIRST POST WORLD NEWS, Friday May 17, 2013 SOUTH AFRICA’S police service have been accused of brutality and even torture by one of the country’s most respected veterans of the anti-apartheid years. Ronnie Kasrils, who served in the first democratically-elected South African Government in the 1990s, has told Sky News: “This is not what we […]
May 17, 2013
Update: Small donors stop greedy daughter, Janice Cottrill from evicting own father from his home – Tola Adenle
http://emotanafricana.com/2013/05/15/a-real-life-tale-of-greed-and-betrayal-from-gods-own-country-as-daughter-attempts-to-evict-father-from-own-home/ Don’t be fooled by the smile and the face, the supposed Janice Cottrill who gave notice to her own father to quit his own home but thanks to donors, this daughter-from-the-pit-of-hell is now known throughout the world. And the 91-year old father she stole a house from. And Jaclyn, the granddaughter – her own […]
May 17, 2013
“What do you want in Ghana? Go back to your country!” – Ian Duncan Utley
The following thought-provoking essay was first published in Modern Ghana on April 28, 2010 – two years ago. It’s carried in the latest posting on Metty Markwei’s Kente Weaver to share with her readers. Ms. Markwei is a graduate student at Yale, and I’ve shared a few of her postings here. This is another one […]
May 17, 2013
Lagos State’s ban of Hijab in government schools: Comments worth sharing
Fausat Sulaima Submitted on 2013/05/16 at 11:38 pm I am a middle-aged Muslim woman from Nigeria and a naturalized US citizen. I am a pharmacist by profession, with a Bachelor of Pharmacy from the University of Ibadan in the ’80′s and with a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharmacy.D) from the University of Maryland at Baltimore. I […]
May 16, 2013
17th Century Slavery-era cabin headed to The Smithsonian – AP
[U.S. State of] South Carolina slave cabin dismantled for Smithsonian display – By BRUCE SMITH | Associated Press Associated Press/Bruce Smith – In this Monday, May 13, 2013 photo, workers remove roofing from a slave cabin on Edisto Island, S.C. EDISTO ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — As a cool sea breeze wafted across a 17th century […]
May 19, 2013
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