Why is it that until Western society figures out how to monetise something from Africa — or from the Global South in general — it’s labelled as primitive, barbaric, or backwards? Because, simply put, the West has long thrived on a system where value only exists when they define it — and profit from it….
Africa Web TV did not attend AFWA 2024 with a rolling camera this year. Instead, we chose to observe the 10th anniversary of this unique event from the perspective of a visitor to the event. That way, Africa Web TV is able to give this objective insight into this edition. Stepping into the vibrant world…
Going down memory lane now, I was part of this photo. The photo was taken on the set of ‘Kongi’s Harvest’ film in 1969. They say its the first Naija film in technicolour. The costume in that picture is that of Kongi, the maximum dictator, without the top jacket, which is Kongi’s military uniform, on…
Oil Block Licensing and Domestic Investors: Nigeria still needs a lot of catching up to do. A major bane of oil administration in Nigeria is the thinking in Nigerian government circles that Nigeria can always run major policy issues its own Nigerian way. No. There is international template if Nigeria wants to successfully compete in…
This is the first time I will see an Igbo talking truth to the others. From the Jan 1966 coup to Odumegwu Ojukwu’s lack of wisdom in the 1967 war, with his escalating commencement of air attacks with a lone bomber on Lagos, Kaduna, Kano; his boastful empty, No force in black Africa can defeat…
I was what was popularly called ‘Western scholar’ in the University of Ibadan, in my student days in the mid-60s. To be so-called then conferred a sort of elitist status for you among your peers. It was probably seen as superior to being a ‘Federal scholar’. And for being a Western Scholar, you don’t have…
I am familiar with Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands. They had a beautiful program for Applied Geology & Geophysics in the mid-70s, to which most countries of the then 3rd world sent geologists. We on the Ajaokuta Project sent our geo-scientists also in the mid-70s. I had privilege with our boss then to…
Yes, the ‘boy-child’ needs attention now more than society thinks. Ironically our forefathers and indigenous societies had very elaborate cultural grooming for their children. All of them and especially the boy-child. The ‘Age-grade’ system is elaborately designed to groom them in all spheres. And there are elaborate age-grade ceremonies for the ‘coming of age’. It…
Anybody who understands the Nigerian Society and its gradual decline in all spheres since about 1975/79, would not fail to perceive the gradual neglect of all standards, regulations and norms over time. Both in the public services and the private sectors; even, the academia, this has been the case. So it is that in the…
A younger colleague of old, now a consultant got in touch with me (always updating me on projects he is on now), and intimated me that he was working on an iron deposit, now, lying side-by-side with a limestone. And I’m like ‘where the hell is that now?’ He has not reverted back. It’s in…
This P&ID Judgement Document: it typifies the level of collapse of accountability in Nigeria, and imminent State collapse, if unchecked. This judgement had the potential to bankrupt the Nigerian state, if it went otherwise against Nigeria. It shows how a group of foreign nobodies in their own countries (international gangsters indeed), routinely leave their own…
My first reaction to the doubtful proposal credited to GeoScan GmBH was to do a rejoinder to this phoney piece the day it first appeared on this platform; I think 2/11/23 it was? And just immediately, I had a rethink that asked me to wait to see if members on this platform would appropriately respond…
