Baobab Africa, Author at BaobabAfrica Online

Baobab Africa People and Economy reports the continent majorly from a positive slant. We celebrate the continent. Not for us the negatives that undermine the African real story of challenging but inspiring growth.

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The butchers of Nigeria

Over the past year, Nigeria’s homegrown terror group Boko Haram has escalated its deadly attacks against Christian and government targets, with the aim ...

By Baobab AfricaJuly 1, 20120

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Disaster Capitalism swoops over Libya: The new colonization of Africa

By PEPE ESCOBAR Think of the new Libya as the latest spectacular chapter in the Disaster Capitalism series. Instead of weapons of mass ...

By Baobab AfricaJuly 1, 20120

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'Disaster Capitalism' What does it mean to Africa?

By NWAKANMA CHIKA How does the bombing of a church in northern Nigeria by some illiterate Boko Haram suicide bomber relate to the ...

By Baobab AfricaJuly 1, 20120

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Male circumcision reduces HIV risk: No further evidence needed

Three recent African trials support male circumcision for reducing the risk of contracting HIV in heterosexual men. After including new data from these ...

By Baobab AfricaJune 3, 20110

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Uncle’s rod of vengeance (a true story)

The year was 1996. Daddy had lost his job several years earlier, and had been unable to secure another one ever since. Mom ...

By Baobab AfricaJune 3, 20110

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Muslim Hausa hegemony and the Jos crisis

Many in the media have severally commented on the recent Jos mayhem, but in the spirit of political correctness virtually none has broached ...

By Baobab AfricaApril 3, 20110

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The famished road

CHINWEOKE OBI writes that Gombe offers a paradox of how government policy on poverty alleviation runs outside the circle of the people’s ...

By Baobab AfricaSeptember 14, 20100

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Sex and the City

A city finds peace in its night clubs despite years of political turbulence By Chinweoke Obi Girls dance the rumba smoothly under blazing music ...

By Baobab AfricaApril 3, 20100

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A business called Education Private sector education is a get-rich scheme in Nigeria

Nigeria’s public sector education is notorious for the incessant labour strikes by poorly paid teachers, the parlous infrastructure that makes learning a curse, ...

By Baobab AfricaApril 3, 20100

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And the birds come to roost

The 2011 elections have shown that the PDP still remains the only national party in terms of its wider spread and acceptance, for ...

By Baobab AfricaFebruary 1, 20100

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Zanu PF's Congress shows Mugabe days numbered

Zimbabwe’s long time ruler President Robert Mugabe has built a reputation as an astute and cunning politician. For close to three decades he ...

By Baobab AfricaDecember 14, 20090

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Kagame re-elected to lead ruling party

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has been re-elected as the Chairman of the ruling party, the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) to serve for four ...

By Baobab AfricaDecember 3, 20091

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The butchers of Nigeria

Disaster Capitalism swoops over Libya: The new colonization of Africa

'Disaster Capitalism' What does it mean to Africa?

Male circumcision reduces HIV risk: No further evidence needed

Uncle’s rod of vengeance (a true story)

Muslim Hausa hegemony and the Jos crisis

The famished road

Sex and the City

A business called Education Private sector education is a get-rich scheme in Nigeria

And the birds come to roost

Zanu PF's Congress shows Mugabe days numbered

Kagame re-elected to lead ruling party

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