In ancient times, the Oracle of Amon at Siwah was the most celebrated, and Heliopolis, Memphis, and Thebes, were representatives of the best of Egyptian civilization and culture. Thebes, a beautiful city on the Nile had the Grand Temples, and as the governing body of the Egyptian Mystery System, constituted the only Grand Lodge in the ancient world.

In a land filled with milk and honey, is it any wonder that Africans are suffering? Is it any wonder that the continent remains underdeveloped? When it matters, our leaders are found wanting. They can afford to sleep when important decisions are made at important international summits.

“What bothers me as much if not more, are the contact lenses that Black women choose to wear which are Blue, Green, or some other color far removed from the eye colors that they were born with. Yes, I do see it as a dislike, even a disdain of self. As a people, not only have we straightened hair, but we have colored our hair "loud" unnatural colors, we add hair in unnatural lengths, wear blue, green or other unnatural contact lenses, bleach our skin (exposing ourselves to multiple health risks)

Corruption is one of major factors contributing to underdevelopment in Africa. Most people agree that unless this cancerous problem is dealt with, most development effort will be fruitless. Poor African countries can develop only if they undergo economic and political reforms. This is because, many countries in Africa inherited a colonial political and economic system designed purely for the purposes of exploiting their natural resources.

Thursday January 15, 2009 marks the 39th anniversary of the end of the Nigerian civil war. *On that day in Dodan Barracks, a brutal 920-day civil war ended as former colleagues and combatants who had engaged each other in bitter warfare for over two and a half years embraced each other with unprecedented speech and warmth.

The world is keenly watching Mr. Obama with boundless optimism as he has motivated and inspired America and the entire world. He has demonstrated beyond words that he is qualified, competent, disciplined and focused. He is clearly good for America and the world. There are of course extraordinary challenges ahead for his presidency.

Mugabe knows his colleagues and contemporaries. He understands their mindset and their worldview. He knows nothing will ever happen to him. Threats of expulsion are simply what they are: empty and meaningless threats. Even if the opposition had won, the sad and ironic part is that Mr. Morgan Tsvangirai would most likely have done to his people what Mugabe is now doing.

As someone who grew up in all the four regions of the country -- and having been a witness to the brilliance of the Igbo Nation -- I never knew a day would come when they essentially would give their opponents the tool with which to curtain and weaken their significance in the Nigerian enterprise. It is hard for me to imagine Nigeria without the Igbo. It is even harder to imagine what the Ndiigbo have allowed their elites to do to them. What happened to the Ndiigbo?

.The most barbaric feature of this modern age is the obscene disparity that exists between one side of the world and the other. It is a disparity that reflects a long history of vampire economics that enables one side to amass great riches by sucking the other to death. Now in the twenty-first century on one side of the world in the land of plenty, drugged citizens eat themselves to death, while on the other side death eats its citizens because food is ARTIFICIALLY too scarce.

Looking at the African scene is very depressing. You ask: can Africans ever join the rest of the world and be accounted as worthwhile? Can Africans have governments and economies that instead of begging for foreign aids are part of the power players of the world? Can Africa become like the USA or Japan, Western Europe, China and India? Is Africa condemned to perpetual poverty and political and economic insignificance?

This piece responds to Sabella's question: where have our intellectuals gone?  It provides a tentative solution to the mess that is Nigeria. In as much as intellectuals are supposed to guide the people to light, the essay in effect tells Sabella that the intellectuals have gone nowhere; they are still with us.

This article calls for family planning in Africa and provides the reasons for doing so.

This article examines the role of character and race in whether individual Africans succeed or fail in America. While accepting the overwhelming role of race in determining whether an African makes it or not, it concludes that Africans who wish  to succeed in America must pay attention to their characters and improve their rough edges.

Although it is a gross generalization, yet one can say that ,on the whole, black folk, including Africans tend to see themselves as the victims of others behaviors and blame other people for their fate. This approach to life may make them accept themselves despite their apparent poverty yet it perpetuates that poverty. It is those who believe that they are in charge of their lives, even if such belief is exaggerated,that tend to do what it takes to improve their lives.