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  • Public Policy Oriented Social Science In Developing Countries
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    Nigeria is a developing country; its social scientists should not take refuge in the Ivory Tower and not participate in the governing of the country. Nigerian social scientists, building on their understanding of the influence of society on the people, ought to be making public policy recommendations to their governments. …
  • The Problem with Fixing Nigeria: How to if we really try
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    There is this natural tendency to despair in the rot called Nigeria even when one lives in this paradise of misgovernance in fits and bursts. However, despair is exactly what the rulers of Nigeria want us to feel, and we must not give them such pleasures. Despair has succeeded in…
  • Facing Jordan
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    Facing Jordan "You got the river of Jer-don, to cross.  Thank God you got the river of Jer-don, to cross.  Just take Jesus as your guide an' He will car-ree you the-ere.  You've got the river, of Jer-don, to cross."   This song was just another gospel song to me until I looked…
  • Walking With God In Another Woman's Shoes
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    Walking With God In Another Woman's Shoes Thinking about writing. Here's the thought: how many of us can or could walk in our mother's shoes? I'm thinking about my mother. She called me today and her presence filled this house. 38 years as a teacher. 46 years as a mother. 62 years old. What happened to her?…
  • Cancer: Reflections Before The War Within Begins
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    Cancer: Reflections Before The War Within Begins Hello.  Please honour my request and apply due diligence to my need for prayers and intercession.  I am starting chemo on this coming Monday.  I will be taking treatment at the Siteman Cancer Center here in St. Louis.  It is located on the campus of Barnes-Jewish Hospital.  We were initially…
  • Ninety-Two Percenter
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    Ninety-Two Percenter Recently, through genetic testing, I've found out that my face cannot tell you what I truly am.  I took a DNA test and the results were that my origin is 82 percent West African, 10 percent uncertain North American origin, and 8 percent British Isles.  I haven't processed this knowledge.…
  • Americanah: A Critical Perspective In Ambrose Ehirim
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    Americanah: A Critical Perspective In Ambrose Ehirim Americanah, when it was published and launched in April, I face-booked it that anyone in diaspora, including those coming abroad for the first time for diaspora lifestyle should read it. It made eloquent sense as reviewers have come to show. The entire work shows in new ways as captured, imagined and experienced…
  • Igbos Seek Your Weak Point And Manipulate It For Their Advantage
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    Igbos are always looking  into your personal life and if they see what to them seem like weak points in it they immediately pounce on them, exploit them and use them to try blackmailing you and or bringing you down. They never struggle to build people up but always want…
  • The Miraculous Millionaire - A new Book on Personal Finance
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    The Miraculous Millionaire - A new Book on Personal Finance Book Description Publication Date: April 23, 2013 Until now, no book on personal finance has systematically and completely shown the average or ordinary individual how to get rich quickly without risks. No book has been written by one of us and from our perspective. Washington or New York mass media elite…
  • One Should Not Blame Paranoid (Igbo) Persons; One Should Help Heal Them
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    Rookie psychotherapists perceiving the devastation paranoid characters leave in their wake are tempted to blame them; seasoned psychotherapists learn that paranoia is a mental disorder and that the sick need to be understood and helped to become healed and not blamed for the negative behaviors they exhibit. This paper says…
  • Should Loyalty To Ones Ethnic Group Justify Supporting Its Criminals?
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    Society is composed of people.  We know that where two or more people live together, given their individual differences and values there must be law that delineates how they behave towards one another. Without laws people living together would trespass on each other’s rights and since those trespassed on don’t…
  • Mothers' Day and Rosary Promises
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    Mothers' Day and Rosary Promises This brief greets mothers at mothers' day. It highlights the rosary and its huge promises to those who relate to the Holy Mother Mary. It asks why can't we take the chance at mothers' day celebration and obtain the everlasting promises? It is a go for all mothers out there.  On Mothers' Day…
  • Nashville, Tennessee: A dynamic City on the move
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    A few years ago, I led a delegation of clergy and lay persons to a meeting at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York. After I was introduced to speak, two well educated ladies walked up to me and asked, “where is Tennessee?”. I couldn't believe it. I was…
  • Let’s negotiate Nigeria
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    “There is nothing exclusive in the term unity; unity for Nigeria holds out the best chance for progress when that unity is a unity of purpose rather than the present hollow approach to unity for sake of unity. For unity to be meaningful, it has to be creative, not the…

  • The Ahiara Declaration by Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu
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    The Ahiara Declaration by Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu 1st June 1969. THE AHIARA DECLARATION  (The Principles of the Biafran Revolution) by  EMEKA OJUKWU General of the People’s Army INTRODUCTION PROUD AND COURAGEOUS BIAFRANS, FELLOW COUNTRY MEN AND WOMEN, I salute you. Today, as I look back over our two years as a sovereign and independent nation, I am overwhelmed with the…
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  • The African American Personality
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    This paper pointed out what other observers have said about the generic African American personality. The author injected some of his cogitations on the nature of fear and love. His view is that racism is caused by fear and lack of love and that the cure for it is love.…
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  • The Problems and Challenges of Insecurity in Nigeria
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    The Problems and Challenges of Insecurity in Nigeria Paper Presented to ACN UK General Meeting, 10th September 2011, London, UK . Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for giving me the honour of addressing this august sitting and audience of great political minds. It is perhaps imperative in this presentation to come to certain terms with what we are…
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  • Civil Liberties, Civl Rights And African American Politics
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    This paper examined the nature of civil liberties and African Americans struggle to have civil liberties extended to them. It emphasized the politics of the post-Civil War Reconstruction era and argues that for all intents and purposes the civil war really ended in 1964, not 1864! It says that despite…
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  • Is Liberalism Always Good For Black Folk?
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    Abstract: This paper says that many black Americans are conservative in their political ideology but given the marriage of conservatism and racism in the Republican Party avoid that party and vote for the Democratic Party. It says that some of the ideas stood for by liberals are revolting to many…
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  • Internet Libel and the Law of Defamation: Justice without Borders?
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    Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)LAWYERS IN THE MEDIA (LIM) FORUM5th Annual LectureNBA Port-Harcourt Law Center, August 24th, 2011 The contemporary torts of libel and slander, collectively known as defamation laws which are common features in the legal system of several Commonwealth countries today including the United States of America originated primarily…
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  • Coping With Existential Depression
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    Coping With Existential Depression This paper is a feedback to a young man that presents with what the writer judged existential depression. The young man did not find any earthly activity meaningful and therefore did not really want to do anything. He felt that life in body is a waste of time, ennui, since…
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  • The Origin and Meaning of the Word “Igbo”: A Response to Ozodi Osuji’s Dilemma
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    The Origin and Meaning of the Word “Igbo”: A Response to Ozodi Osuji’s Dilemma This brief submission is a response intended to address Dr. Ozodi Osuji's article published in this column captioned: "What is the origin and meaning of the word Igbo"? I developed some curiosity as quickly as I finished reading the article. I kept asking myself, should an Igbo like Dr. Osuji be asking this type of…
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  • Owanbe! Yoruba Celebrations of Life by Abi Adegboye and Ibiyemi Dare - On Chatafrik BookClub
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    Owanbe! Yoruba Celebrations of Life by Abi Adegboye and Ibiyemi Dare - On Chatafrik BookClub Owanbe! Yoruba Celebrations of Life by Abi Adegboye and Ibiyemi Dare Ó wà ń'bẹ̀! Correct music, mouth-watering dishes, fine colorful fabrics, skyscraping gèlès, beautiful bodies in motion, drama, oríṣiríṣí and definitely, cash! Part cultural artifact, part how-to manual, this book is a delightful resource about Yoruba cultural celebrations. It features…
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