AFRICA: THE RENEWED FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE

Here we are, almost a century after slavery was physically and politically abolished, deciding our place in the world. The "scramble for Africa was always about political, economical, social and institutional dominance" over a set of people for the privilege of another. Now, I would love to agree with the right-winged people of the West and erase the sins of the father from the sons. Problem is the concept of slavery was never abolished, it was simple deregularized and "the scramble" is still on.

WHAT DO WE REALLY VOTE FOR? 'SILENCE'

This simple question got me thinking lately. I needed to get to the root of the political plague in modern day Nigeria. Naturally blessed with riches beyond measures, comfortably sitting on major world's resources, we have continued to live in poverty and as ethnic minorities in foreign nations.

So when we go to cast our votes every four years, what are we voting for? The terrible answer is "Nothing". We vote for hoax promises of infrastructure and material gains rather than a 'way of human existence' or an 'ideology of life in itself'. We are blackmailed into false promises of infrastructural development, political positions and provisions of the basic necessities of life.