In response to the yearnings of my numerous fans down the years, this blog is built to feature installmental postings of scores of articles and cartoons from my stable as an analyst and cartoonist on local/international politics in the Times Group. It also parades some of my crowd-pulling humour writings in the famous "Concord Laff" column(the Sunday Concord. Please stay connected.
The recent revolt in Egypt as well as the present altercations in Libya should teach African leaders one lesson: The people’s test of wills will always simmer to a point of explosion where leaders fail to look into history. Today’s article post is drawn from my Concord Laff column. Published after a revolt of prisoners at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison, it was a reflection of the revolt in France, and a warning to the Nigerian leadership at the time that there was a limit to the patience of the masses.
The current horse-trading in which politicians are recklessly carpet-crossing is not new to us. Today’s post revisits the flagrant abuse of due process in this unholy game. Published on April 17, 1983 in the Sunday Concord, the article also examined the nauseating penchant for wasting the nation’s resources in useless court cases.
Today’s cartoon is a mirror of the pre-independence era. I had to issue a reminder to President Shehu Shagari that, while he was hobnobbing with the British monarchy during his state visit to Britain in the early 1980s, the Margaret Thatcher administration was paying deaf ear to the hue and cry over South Africa’s independence. Thank God, reasoned prevailed in 1994 when South Africa was accorded universal suffrage.
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