Oh My, It is Another Washington Fairy Tale

Listening to the chest beating in Washington about all the wonderful things they are doing for the American People it is easy to get excited. So many wonderful programs passed all for the benefit of the individual American. It makes you proud to look forward to what will become the New America.

Whither Democracy in Africa?

Who says Africa is not under a new phase of colonialism? With the benefit of hindsight, it is commonly known that most of the countries in Africa (as they are known today) were not in existence when the first Hague Peace Conference was held in 1889; many of them started to emerge after the Berlin confab of where the decision to partition the continent by the powers-that-be were taken so the geographical entity known as Nigeria with a population of over 140 million (surely it must be far more than that) came into being just 25 years after, Lagos, the former sit of government having been ceded to the British authority in 1861 and which socially brutalized and politically strangulated it for the next 100 years.