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Guns and justice in the Niger Delta
Nigeria's Niger Delta has known a long history of struggle over resources. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, indigenous communities fought...
New Internationalist, 09/01/07 by Ike Oguine · More from publication -
Lagos versus Abuja
Lekki is one of the fastest-growing parts of Lagos, the former capital of Nigeria. New housing estates sprout all the time beside old fishing...
New Internationalist, 04/01/07 by Ike Oguine · More from publication -
A visit to my hometown
My oldest paternal uncle died in July. He was probably almost 100, and was born long before we began to keep written records. He was the oldest man...
New Internationalist, 12/01/06 by Ike Oguine · More from publication -
The trouble with models
Not too long ago Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni was considered a model of leadership in and for Africa. It was a Museveni-led liberation army...
New Internationalist, 08/01/06 by Ike Oguine · More from publication -
War on corruption
Nigerians have watched with astonishment as a number of public officers have been dismissed or arrested or put on trial on charges of corruption....
New Internationalist, 12/01/05 by Ike Oguine · More from publication -
Strange bedfellows
I ONLY became interested in the French referendum on the EU constitution when news reports began to say that the tide was turning against the...
New Internationalist, 08/01/05 by Ike Oguine · More from publication -
The burden of notoriety
THE poverty and suffering of Africa has recently been making headlines. The reincarnation of 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' by Bob Geldof and Co,...
New Internationalist, 05/01/05 by Ike Oguine · More from publication -
The lessons of war
MOZAMBIQUE's Afonso Dhlakama has had an interesting political life. Up until the early 1990s his Renamo movement fought a brutal civil war against...
New Internationalist, 12/01/04 by Ike Oguine · More from publication -
Nollywood looks to the future
IN the early 1990s, the resourceful Nigerian entrepreneur Ken Nnebue sponsored the production of Living in Bondage, a video movie in Igbo, a major...
New Internationalist, 10/01/04 by Ike Oguine · More from publication -
The West's new friend
So enormous is Muammar al Qadhafi's sense of self importance that he named his small book of political thoughts the Green Book. He obviously saw...
New Internationalist, 06/01/04 by Ike Oguine · More from publication
