By: Basil Jide Fadipe Medical Surgeon, Teacher, Social Commentator Justin Fadipe Centre Commonwealth of Dominica West Indies @fadipeb@cwdom.dm If I’d thought the Ben Carson that popped up on the political stage was nothing but pitiful caricature of expectations, his recent decision to cast his lot with Donald Trump reduces him to a tragic anomaly. Ben…
On occasions like this, I sorely miss my departed and dear brother, attorney Kunle Fadipe; he would have treated me to something close or equal to a forensic analysis of the circumstances: either that or some well argued but laughable cynicism of the system. He would have walked me from the roots, point me along…
Prof. Basil Jide Fadipe Medical Surgeon, Teacher, Social Commentator To be black, no matter how straight or nuanced the story behind the blackness, is also in the end more to be viewed as African….. for good or bad. And though blacks dispersed around the world no longer represent a homogenous group, ….courtesy history and accidents…
That is the question How come is it that the daughters of the Niger wash their hands with sputum, and the sons of the Iroko build their houses with bark? By what providence do the citizens of this great country find themselves begging bread in the midst of a great abundance of natural and…
A Pax Americana Beginning Annum Domini 2003 At least that is what the Americans would like to have, anyway. Having bulldozed Baghdad and liberated the oil-fields, the Yankees now straddle Iraqi society like an imperious Colossus. Iraqi TV used to be dominated by images and eulogies to Mr Saddam, these days the “popular” fare is…
This is a repost of an article in The Cable The young Revered Joshua Adah devoted his life to serving disadvantaged children in the violent northeast, and paid the ultimate price.