American deaths from the COVID-19 raced past the 100,000 mark this week, thanks largely to a famously coy and bungled Federal response. To put this staggering number in perspective, let’s recall that 33,686 Americans perished in the Korean War, another 58,220 in two decades of the Vietnam War, 2996 during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack and 2,354 in nearly two decades of US military… Read More

I often express the hope that one day all those who allegedly committed internationally-recognised crimes in Nigeria, especially during the Biafra-Nigeria Civil War, will be made to face justice.   My hope is buoyed by those popular wordsexpressed by the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal after the Second World War: ‘crimes against international law are committed by men, not abstract entities, and only by punishing individuals who committed such crimes can the provisions… Read More

This is the weekend of May 30, the date of the official declaration of the former Republic of Biafra: the Land of the Rising Sun! Biafra holds a duality of meaning to the Igbo and other Nigerians. To millions, it was the highest point of their expression of the creative  skills and existential ingenuity of the Igbo, Annang, Ibibio, the… Read More

One of the five cardinal objectives of the United States foreign policy is “promoting and supporting” democracy. The US has fought wars and spent billions of dollars “promoting and supporting” its own genre of democracy in other countries – especially in the developing world. The country touted itself to be the emancipator of the world – against communism — during… Read More