Buhari: The Messiah Who Will Not Save Nigeria

Posted on Mon 07 June 2021 in Nigeria • Tagged with Buhari, APC, Politics, Tinubu, PDP, Corruption

Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Bayo Omoboriowo, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

By Shamusudeen Kareem

The Yorubas have a saying that if a child would cater for his parents at their old age, such child would have shown symptoms of doing so at a young age …


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Why history will judge Burundi’s Pierre Nkurunziza harshly

Posted on Mon 15 June 2020 in Africa • Tagged with Burundi, President Pierre Nkurunziza, Major General Evariste Ndayishimiye, Rwanda, politics

President Pierre Nkurunziza arrives to inaugurate Burundi’s Chinese-built state house on September 27, 2019. (Photo by ONESPHORE NibigIra/AFP via Getty Images)

David E Kiwuwa, University of Nottingham

Pierre Nkurunziza, Burundi’s football-loving president and self-proclaimed pastor, has died at the age of 55. By all accounts this was …


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