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Trapped Between the Carpetbaggers and Imperial Conquistadors

Chudi Okoye - March 3, 2025

As Ukraine fights for survival in the face of Russian aggression, its leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, must navigate not just the perils of war but also the treacheries of geopolitics—where some allies seem as unreliable as adversaries are...

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A Toast to IBB at Book Launch

Chudi Okoye - February 21, 2025

A Toast to IBB at Book LaunchBy Chudi Okoye (Second draft: Feb 21, 2025)What an event they made of it!Grand, gilded, and glitteringA blistering reminder of their mighty gainsAnd glistering provenance of our biting pains.

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And Americans Went Out to Vote, Vexed, and Flexed for Historic Change

Chudi Okoye - November 10, 2024

Donald Trump's impending return to the U.S. presidency promises potentially profound conservative reversals in domestic and foreign policy. However, the inexorable logic of history suggests a progressive trajectory in the long run. By Chudi Okoye In March 1933, after a...

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British-Nigerian Hardliner Wins Tory Leadership with Peculiar Political ‘Kemistry’

Chudi Okoye - November 5, 2024

Kemi Badenoch’s rapid rise in British politics is impressive and a thing of pride for her ancestral country. But her pugilistic political personae, beloved by her party’s hard right, may limit her national appeal and likely circumscribe her political...

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US Democracy is Toast if Even the Post Offers ‘Anticipatory Obedience’ to Donald Trump

Chudi Okoye - October 30, 2024

There are ominous portents for American democracy, with potential global ripples, in US media owners’ veto of their newspapers’ presidential endorsements, for fear of political repercussions. By Chudi Okoye He is a billionaire two hundred times over, exalted even among the...

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Nigeria: Hunger Protest, Potential Realignments, and the 2027 Presidential Election

Chudi Okoye - August 14, 2024

The activists who planned the recent #EndBadGovernance protest in Nigeria could not have expected its political fallouts, including the potential to trigger realignments in the 2027 presidential election. By Chudi Okoye Even before the recent #EndBadGovernance protest in Nigeria had commenced,...

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If Kamala Cracks the Glass Ceiling, Can It Be ‘Obi-literated’ In Nigeria?

Chudi Okoye - August 10, 2024

History beckons in Nigeria, if Kamala Harris can smash the power ceiling in the US. By Chudi Okoye They are both trying to break a glass ceiling in their respective countries: she, a gender barrier; he, an ethnic one. They...

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Clash of Class and Ethnicity in Regional Responses to the Hardship Protest in Nigeria

Chudi Okoye - August 8, 2024

The ongoing hardship protest in Nigeria may be squelched by strident rebuke and heavy-handed coercion, but there’s a deeper dynamic in it that bodes ill for the country. By Chudi Okoye After weeks of it being whispered and days of its...

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Will America Reach Higher and Hire Harris, or Slump into a Dump with Trump the Grump?

Chudi Okoye - July 25, 2024

Donald Trump and wingnuts in his Republican Party are lobbing racist and misogynistic attacks at the Democratic Party’s new presumptive nominee, Kamala Harris. Will it prove a winning tactic for them? By Chudi Okoye With recent events in...

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Biden’s Re-election Bid Was Scuttled in 2024. Shouldn’t Tinubu’s be in 2027?

Chudi Okoye - July 23, 2024

At 81, President Joe Biden, who is just over 2x the median age of Americans, was forced to abandon his re-election bid on account of dotage. At over 72 years of official age, Bola Tinubu is 4x the median...

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