� How do the Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler opportunity and grievance model, and the James Fearon and David Laitin’s civil war hypothesisassess the Nigeria Civil war (Biafra war of secession, 1967 – 1970)? Was the declaration of Biafra’s Independence largely as a result o...
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Unfortunately, the common good of humanity has always been hampered by divided religious views, cultural views, political views, race, ethnicity and gender. Since the beginning of time, humanity has suffered wars, enslavement, repression, suppression, abuses&#...
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After many years of enduring the rigors, manipulation and exploitation of Western colonial powers, Africans are hoping that patronage, peace and progress may come at last from the East, aligned by China. After centuries of slavery, wars and poverty, China has stepped forward to offer what appears to...
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In recent years, a closer look at the Nigerian tertiary institutions reveals a worrisome skew from the epicentrum of scholarly life. Religious groups (both Christian and Islamic) have mostly filled the emblematic and substantial spaces vacated by civil intellectual, scholarly and erudi...
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Nigeria as a country has seen very little socio-economic and geo-political development since its independence in 1960. Now it is no new-fangled thought that when political marginalization exists amongst tribes and ethnicities in a country, collective growth and relative progress is diff...
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Today we have become America. We have rowed our boats through the turbulent and trying seas of time, and with dreams and hopes we have paddled to the shores of America- the America built on the creeds of equal rights and justice. We have arrived at the America that existed in the dreams of Ma...
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Since the dawn of neocolonialism, my nights have been filled with the ballads of Nzingha- the Amazon queen of Matamba, the sonnets of Nehanda- the Mbuya of Zimbabwe and the odes of Yaa Asantewa- the queen mother of Ejisu of Ashanti. I seem to have become the spirit of their poetries and the ...
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That morning, the rain forest woke up with songs. By noon the Atlantic flourished in its hoary and azure under the feldspar sun. Birds flew under the dense white clouds that gathered over the aquamarine sky. The sun was in full luster. By evening, ships had begun to arrive at the shores. And...
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Zainab ran away from home, not because she was a rebellious child, a truant or a wayward girl. She was only 12 years old, and her parents had accepted her bride price from Alhaji Sabo, a man who was old enough to be her grandfather. She ran away from home because she did not want to ...
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