Owei Lakemfa

Swing through China

By Owei Lakemfa I was taking a train in Nigeria for the second time in…

We are our brother’s keeper

By Owei Lakemfa After another round of shedding the blood of fellow Africans in the…

International Women’s Day: Be like Clara Zetkin

By Owei Lakemfa The International Women’s Day marked this Wednesday, March 8, was like a…

Indian garri, plastic rice and Brazilian hair

By Owei Lakemfa. Many Nigerians are angry. They discovered that their prized garri, the cassava…

The New American Age of Intolerance

By Owei Lakemfa In his first Address to the Joint Session of the American Congress…

The age of Mugabe and the age of ideas

By Owei Lakemfa Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the Pan Africanist and internationalist who was elected Zimbabwean…

Alfred Ilenre; Saro-Wiwa’s other half, departs

By Owei Lakemfa Alfred Ilenre was a name whispered in news rooms when I became…

South Africa’s wrestle with its past and future

By Owei Lakemfa Turmoil. That is South Africa’s state of mind. The manifestation of this,…

Africa’s push back from the ICC

By Owei Lakemfa There are heated debates in Africa and in diplomatic circles across the…

The choices of Africa

By Owei Lakemfa It had been an hard choice; Africa electing a new Chairperson of…