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...
By Chudi Okoye
We are at this moment more than midway through the Holy Week in Christendom, a period requiring of observant Christians that they engage in fasting and abstinence, along with meditation and prayer, as we re-enact the passion...
20% Population, 1% Political Power
By Chudi Okoye
The math is simply mind-bending
Bleaker even than in racist America
Where once the beleaguered Black,
Considered as White man's chattel,
Were estimated three-fifths a human
In their owners' political calculation.
America re-jigged its rusted math
After eighty years...
Stooperpower
By Chudi Okoye
Anthony Blinken blinks inartfully
At the spate of unspeakable horrors
Visited upon Gaza by America's vexed ally.
Joe Biden, his boss, bends unabashedly
To the whims of a wild client state
With balls bigger than its budget.
Oh, how are the mighty crawling!
Amid...
With the recent Supreme Court ruling reinstating the terrorism and treasonable felony charges leveled against Nnamdi Kanu, danger looms for the South East. The region must lobby harder to have the case terminated, failing which it should brace up...
Nigeria should adopt Kissinger’s ‘great power’ vision to assert itself in Africa and the Global South, but not his more devious methods.
By Chudi Okoye
As a young, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed idealist weaving my way in the world of liberal academia,...
Achebe Mourns Nigeria
By Chudi Okoye
October 27, 2023
It looks indeed as if God Himself, like a Vengeful Creditor, wants to deny this country any respite or Civil Peace.
It feels truly as if it is the Beginning of the End....
Following the traumatic outcome of the 2023 presidential election, the South East summit on economy, security and politics holding this week is a welcome initiative to begin a reset that may enable a frazzled region to compete more effectively...
By Chudi Okoye
It is long past time to begin seriously to reconsider the portrayal of Judas Iscariot in biblical exegesis and intellectual discourse. In fact, such reappraisal has been going on in certain scholarly circles, especially since the translation...
The South East invested heavy political capital in Peter Obi’s 2023 presidential bid. While Obi pursues litigation to recover his allegedly stolen mandate, the South East must avoid the tyranny of protracted grief over the last election and must...
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 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...
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...