Word: continente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no better tonic for a President in trouble than a tour of the horizon aboard Air Force One. Red-carpet welcomes and cheering crowds in far-off places boost his morale and make him a world statesman, not just a politician, to the folks back home. Jimmy Carter...
In its foreign affairs, the Soviet Union also has a flawed record. Since World War II, a dozen countries have come under Communist rule. The mystique of socialism - the dominant ideology of the Third World - has given the Russians close ties there. But somehow the Russians have trouble enlarging their...
By and large, the poverty of the continent lies not in her 'poor' natural resources but in her people and the African character. Until we are ready to face the challenges, strangers will ever remain to exploit our continent. According to an old African proverb: the natives who defecate in...
The end of the Second World War opened the flood gates for nationalist movements in Africa. Students who had studied abroad, men like the late Kwame Nkrumah, the late I.T.A. Wallace Johnson, Namdi Azikiwe and many other began to fan the flames of nationalist movements in the continent. African newspapers...
I have briefly tried to present without any prejudice an adjective picture of how the situation was from pre-colonial to the post-independence era. The question that remains to be answered is what has made Africa a poor continent. Many have glorified the African past, that is, pre-colonial...