by DIBUSSI TANDE
Naijablog comments on WikiLeaks revelations about the infiltration of the Nigerian government by Shell:
The history of post-independence Nigeria is intimately connected with Shell. Nigeria and Shell are twins someone forgot to separate at birth. No one is at all shocked to hear of the former head of Sub-Saharan operations Ann Pickard’s boast that the company has infiltrated government to the core.
Myweku comments on revelations that Ghana had become a transit hub for trafficking cocaine:
Ken Opalo analyses WikiLeaks’ revelations about Kenya’s strategy for dealing with the chaos in Somalia:
Pipeline Dreams writes about the unfulfilled promise of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline which was supposed to transform Chad into an economic Eldorado:
Aidwatchers reviews a study which compares colonial legacy in the British and French Cameroons which reunited in 1961:
Image Nations reacts to a New York Times article in which Nigerian writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani complains that today’s African writers would rather imitate the styles of Achebe and Soyinka than create new styles:
Scribbles from the Den reviews a talk that former South African president FW De Klerk gave recently to a group of senior executives in Chicago, USA:
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