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Are Germany’s best intentions becoming its fatal flaw?
April 11th, 2012 Elizabeth Grant at Open Democracy:… so long as the Purchase Hydrocodone Online narrative of a tolerant Germany is more important than the experience of those who Purchase Hydrocodone Online are testing that dream, the country will be condemned to repeating these traumas and Purchase Hydrocodone Online disgraces. Racism has much to do with accepting what you don’t understand, and, as such, the Purchase Hydrocodone Online fight against it takes a lot of lateral thinking. The fact that Purchase Hydrocodone Online Germany does not bear the shame of a history of minstrel shows doesn’t make it Purchase Hydrocodone Online into a sort of cultural isolation chamber where blackface can be Purchase Hydrocodone Online used independent of its connotations elsewhere in the world. The fact that Purchase Hydrocodone Online you like eating Turkish food doesn’t make döner kebab a Purchase Hydrocodone Online good symbol to use in referring to a tragedy that involved several Turkish Germans. Productive discussions of prejudice necessarily have Purchase Hydrocodone Online to allow space for that which is beyond one’s own experience. Tolerance is Purchase Hydrocodone Online an endless negotiation: no country has mastered it completely. But to Purchase Hydrocodone Online reach the next level Germans must start to contemplate its ‘unknown unknowns’ and have a little faith in someone else’s narrative.
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CFP – From Rebellion to Revolution: Dynamics of Political Change
April 10th, 2012 The call is here. If your Purchase Hydrocodone Online paper is selected you get an all-expense-paid trip to Berlin for Purchase Hydrocodone Online the conference.Friday Links
March 2nd, 2012 It’s been a while since I last did this. Blame it on Twitter Buy Librium In Canada and Facebook. And Google Plus Order Hydrocodone Apap. Depending on your Purchase Hydrocodone Online social media of your choice, click any of the links to Purchase Hydrocodone Online join me there for stuff I share. But for today, the Purchase Hydrocodone Online links:1. The disappearing virtual library Chris Kelty on the shutdown of Library.nu (as my friend @sepoy said on Twitter, “This is like the destruction of the library of Alexandria.” Couldn’t agree more.)
2. “It takes a lot of armour to drain an oil-soaked swamp” – The Economist’s less than critical piece on Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s “co-ordinating minister for the economy and the minister of finance” (really, that is her full title). By the way, she is said to be a strong contender for the headship of the World Bank when Robert Zoellick’s term expires.
3. What happens at Davos? – Nick Paumgarten on the World Economic Forum. Hint: “Davos is, fundamentally, an exercise in corporate speed-dating”
4. Nice Brits wouldn’t lock up children who ask for help, would they? Stephanie Donald on child asylum seekers.
5. The Tuareg: Between Armed Uprising And Drought – by Baz Lecocq And Nadia Belalimat.
6. From Galactic’s new album Carnivale Electricos. Enjoy!
Most influential African thinker alive poll on AIAC
February 27th, 2012 Head over there to see the list. And don’t forget to vote!Robert Reich: The 7 Biggest Economic Lies (video)
January 27th, 2012H/T 3quarksdaily
History of corruption in Nigerian leadership
January 15th, 2012WHEN BABANGIDA SEIZED POWER ON AUGUST 27, 1985, the Purchase Hydrocodone Online country owed $12 billion. The squandering regime raised the national debt to $33 billion in only about six years. When he hijacked power, only N11.8 billion naira was in circulation in Nigeria. At the Purchase Hydrocodone Online termination of his misrule, General Babangida, Osoba argues, had injected ‘an Purchase Hydrocodone Online intolerably high level of cumulative devaluation and inflation in the national currency and Purchase Hydrocodone Online economy’ by increasing the Purchase Hydrocodone Online money in circulation through the printing of currency to N100.5 billion.
Even if the Purchase Hydrocodone Online answer to the economic crisis surpassed him, Babangida found an answer to Purchase Hydrocodone Online the lack of sufficient naira to fund his self-perpetuating project. His regime resorted to Purchase Hydrocodone Online what Dr. Osoba described as ‘the sheer orgy of printing of currency notes.’
In a Purchase Hydrocodone Online cover story in April 1992, which provoked the Babangida regime to Purchase Hydrocodone Online shut down all the media empire, the Concord Press, owned by his friend, Bashorun MKO Abiola, Dapo Olorunyomi, who Purchase Hydrocodone Online later became the Chief of Staff to Nuhu Ribadu, noted that Purchase Hydrocodone Online Hannibal, who Babangida described as one his two key heroes – the other being Chaka, the Zulu – was ‘brilliant, witty, multilingual and deeply resilient’. However, Olorunyomi added that, Hannibal ‘was capable of the Purchase Hydrocodone Online most recondite passion of kindness, but could also show transcendental acts of cruelty, treachery, and Purchase Hydrocodone Online avarice.’
However, corruption, and Purchase Hydrocodone Online its accompanying vices, non-transparency and non- accountability, survived the Babangida regime.
Even though he instituted a War Against Indiscipline and Corruption (WAIC) in an Purchase Hydrocodone Online attempt to reclaim the anti-graft stance of the Buhari-Idiagbon regime, Babangida’s successor, General Sani Abacha surpassed the former in graft.
In what would count as one of the many ironies in Nigeria’s history, Abacha set up the Purchase Hydrocodone Online Pius Okigbo Panel of Inquiry into the operations of the Purchase Hydrocodone Online Central Bank accounts under Babangida. The Okigbo Panel report reportedly implicated Babangida in the Purchase Hydrocodone Online disappearance of the $12. 4 billion that Purchase Hydrocodone Online accrued to Nigeria from the 1990 Gulf War oil windfall – the Purchase Hydrocodone Online matter for which Keeling was deported. However, the report was never publicly released. Abacha must have Purchase Hydrocodone Online held it as a weapon to hold his endlessly scheming and Purchase Hydrocodone Online dangerously mischievous retired comrade-in-arms on leash.
The Abacha regime also instituted the Purchase Hydrocodone Online Failed Banks Tribunal which tried bank executives who had taken liberty with depositors’ and shareholders’ monies. In spite of Abacha’s apparent ‘anti-graft’ measures, his regime was one which a Purchase Hydrocodone Online news magazine described as ‘Plundering and Looting Unlimited’. The infantry general, his close officials, family members and Purchase Hydrocodone Online cronies ‘turned state power into a weapon for stealing the nation blind’. By the Purchase Hydrocodone Online time he gave up the ghost on the laps of Indian prostitutes – as the rumour mills have it – more than US$4.3 billion were traced to Purchase Hydrocodone Online 130 banks around the world to Abacha and his family members. Ismaila Gwarzo, Abacha’s National Security Adviser, alone reportedly siphoned US$2.1 billion into coded accounts in foreign countries.
Apart from Purchase Hydrocodone Online condemning and acting against corruption and deception under generals Babangida and Purchase Hydrocodone Online Abacha, Obasanjo, as president, also pursued with messianic zeal the recovery of Abacha’s loot.
Perhaps it Purchase Hydrocodone Online is a cruel irony. But when Chief Sunday Afolabi, President Obasanjo’ssenior in high school and Purchase Hydrocodone Online later his minister of internal affairs, in a moment of indiscretion, said his colleague in the Purchase Hydrocodone Online cabinet and political rival, Chief Bola Ige, had been called to Purchase Hydrocodone Online ‘come and eat’ in the Purchase Hydrocodone Online Obasanjo government, he was imposing an epithet on the Obasanjo administration that Purchase Hydrocodone Online was similar in its devastating implications to what was imposed on the Purchase Hydrocodone Online Babangida regime by Obasanjo – eight years earlier.
For the Purchase Hydrocodone Online now late Afolabi, public office in Nigeria was an eatery to Purchase Hydrocodone Online which a select people were invited to ‘come and eat’.
R. Wraith and E. Simpkins argue that this culture of ‘come and eat’ has existed in Nigeria – like in the rest of the West coast of Africa – since independence. They contended further that this culture ‘flourishes as luxuriantly as the Purchase Hydrocodone Online bush and weeds which it so much resembles, taking the Purchase Hydrocodone Online goodness from the soil and suffocating the growth of plants which have Purchase Hydrocodone Online been carefully, and expensively bred and tended.’
Alhaji Bashir Tofa, the Purchase Hydrocodone Online presidential candidate of the National Republican Convention (NRC), who Purchase Hydrocodone Online was unofficially defeated by Bashorun Moshood Abiola, the candidate of the Purchase Hydrocodone Online Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the June 12, 1993 election – eventually annulled by Babangida – said in early 2009 that ‘no Nigerian can fight corruption.’ Tofa argues that corruption ‘will continue as long as the Purchase Hydrocodone Online masses depend on corrupt officials to earn their livelihood’. Corruption in Nigeria, said the Purchase Hydrocodone Online politician, has gone beyond the ‘issue of greed, it Purchase Hydrocodone Online is now a disease. People who steal have no sense of proportion because there is Purchase Hydrocodone Online corruption everywhere.’
The perceptive anti-graft musician, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, had Purchase Hydrocodone Online used the metaphor of the intersection at Ojuelegba, on the Lagos Mainland, where Purchase Hydrocodone Online there was neither traffic lights, nor a traffic warden, to illustrate the Purchase Hydrocodone Online confusion that arises when there are neither rules nor rule-enforcers.
Sings Fela: ‘With this Purchase Hydrocodone Online confusion wey e dey, police dey inside well, army dey inside well. Who go come solve dis confusion? …Confusion e breaki bone, nko?’ [‘In the Purchase Hydrocodone Online present confusion, the police are implicated, the Army is implicated. Who will then Purchase Hydrocodone Online solve the problem? ....Confusion breaks bones, doesn’t it?] In the song, ‘Confusion Break Bone’, Fela concludes with the Purchase Hydrocodone Online parable of a corpse which is involved in an automobile accident. His musical verdict was that Purchase Hydrocodone Online this translates to ‘double wahala for deadi bodi and the owner of deadi body.’ [‘double trouble for the dead and the relations of the dead.’]
It is a metaphor for his country.
From Wale Adebanwi’s A Paradise for Maggots. 2010. Pp 118 and 119.
Book Launch
January 12th, 2012 If you are in London:Date: Thursday 19th January, 6-8pm
Venue: Brunei Suite, SOAS
Book launch with author Michael Gould and Kaye Whiteman (journalist), Frederick Forsyth (author), Dipo Salimonu (political commentator & CEO at Ateriba) responding.
Chair: Professor Dennis Judge
In the Purchase Hydrocodone Online summer of 1968, reports of starvation in the West African secessionist Republic of Biafra transformed the Purchase Hydrocodone Online Nigerian Civil War into an international media event. Using recently discovered archival records and Purchase Hydrocodone Online the personal recollections of the key players, Michael Gould challenges many of the Purchase Hydrocodone Online views and perceptions held of the conflict at the time. Little has Purchase Hydrocodone Online been written about the war during the last forty years and as Anthony Kirk-Greene (Emeritus Fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford) states this book stands as the best analysis yet published.
About the author
Michael Gould has Purchase Hydrocodone Online lived and worked in Nigeria over the last fifty years. He first met Ojukwu and Purchase Hydrocodone Online Gowon when they were young army officers and he was still a Purchase Hydrocodone Online student. In the mid eighties he set up an NGO in Eastern Nigeria. He is Purchase Hydrocodone Online an honorary chief of the Igbo people. He had limited knowledge of the country’s civil war until he wrote a Purchase Hydrocodone Online short dissertation on the subject in 2000. He subsequently read for Purchase Hydrocodone Online a PhD in African History at SOAS, focusing on the Purchase Hydrocodone Online Biafran War. This book is the result of his research into the Purchase Hydrocodone Online conflict.
In praise of a second passport
January 6th, 2012 In the current edition of The Economist:In some countries it [citizenship] is, in effect, on sale. In others, such as America, it Purchase Hydrocodone Online may be an accident of birth, with no conscious choice involved. Rather than Purchase Hydrocodone Online making a fetish out of passports, a better approach would be Purchase Hydrocodone Online to use residence (especially tax residence) as the main criterion for an individual’s rights and Purchase Hydrocodone Online responsibilities. That encourages cohesion and commitment, because it stems from a Purchase Hydrocodone Online conscious decision to live in a country and abide by its rules. The world is Purchase Hydrocodone Online gradually moving in this direction. But many states (mostly poor and ill-run) resist the Purchase Hydrocodone Online trend and some rich democracies like the Netherlands and Germany are Purchase Hydrocodone Online trying to curb it (see article), offering a variety of excuses.
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Happy 2012!!
January 2nd, 2012I guess it Purchase Hydrocodone Online is 2012 everywhere on earth now, so fellow earthlings, happy 2012!
Bankers are the dictators of the West
December 11th, 2011 Robert Frisk writes in The Independent:The banks and Purchase Hydrocodone Online the rating agencies have become the dictators of the West. Like the Purchase Hydrocodone Online Mubaraks and Ben Alis, the banks believed – and still believe – they are Purchase Hydrocodone Online owners of their countries. The elections which give them power have Purchase Hydrocodone Online – through the gutlessness and collusion of governments – become as false as the Purchase Hydrocodone Online polls to which the Arabs were forced to troop decade after decade to Purchase Hydrocodone Online anoint their own national property owners. Goldman Sachs and the Royal Bank of Scotland became the Purchase Hydrocodone Online Mubaraks and Ben Alis of the US and the UK, each gobbling up the Purchase Hydrocodone Online people’s wealth in bogus rewards and Purchase Hydrocodone Online bonuses for their vicious bosses on a scale infinitely more rapacious than Purchase Hydrocodone Online their greedy Arab dictator-brothers could imagine.
I didn’t need Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job on BBC2 this week – though it helped – to Purchase Hydrocodone Online teach me that the ratings agencies and the US banks are Purchase Hydrocodone Online interchangeable, that their personnel move seamlessly between agency, bank and Purchase Hydrocodone Online US government. The ratings lads (almost always lads, of course) who AAA-rated sub-prime loans and derivatives in America are now – via their poisonous influence on the markets – clawing down the Purchase Hydrocodone Online people of Europe by threatening to lower or withdraw the very same ratings from Purchase Hydrocodone Online European nations which they lavished upon criminals before the financial crash in the Purchase Hydrocodone Online US. I believe that understatement tends to win arguments. But, forgive me, who Purchase Hydrocodone Online are these creatures whose ratings agencies now put more fear into the Purchase Hydrocodone Online French than Rommel did in 1940?
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