The Sunday Essay: The 1976 Montreal boycott
How an All Black rugby tour of South Africa disrupted international sport and brought shame to New Zealand.
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How an All Black rugby tour of South Africa disrupted international sport and brought shame to New Zealand.
The Alternative By Reno Omokri One of the first things that President Muhammadu Buhari did upon his swearing-in as President of Nigeria in 2015 was to ban foreign exchange allocation to Nigerian students studying abroad. He later gave an interview to Aljazeera on March 5, 2016, and justified the position he took. When the interviewer, Martine Dennis, pushed back at him and reminded him that his children were schooling abroad and that “your children will continue their studies, no doubt?” Buhari was taken aback. He did not know that the reporter was that knowledgeable about his personal af...
Share Oyin Adejobi, late Yoruba cripple thespian renowned for his famous African alternative dispute resolution drama sketches called Kootu Asipa of the 1980s, once allegorized the story of how he became disabled. In Orogun Adedigba, (the wicked co-wife) an autobiographical movie, Adejobi narrativized how his mother’s jealously wicked co-wife puffed up the fire of a destructive potion that immobilized him for life. Iconoclastic Yoruba Kennery brand music lord, Orlando Owo’s Itan Orogun Meji track (the story of two co-wives) also explains the concept of a polygamous home’s squabbles. Two...
Punch Newspapers Sections Published 12 January 2021 For the first time in my life, I heard that some Americans were killed and the Capitol vandalised by a mob because of a presidential election. It was the kind of stories we hear from countries in Africa, Asia and South America. What changed? Nothing changed in the American system. The only thing that changed was that a man called Donald John Trump was elected president of the United States in 2016 and contested the 2020 election as the incumbent and lost. The electoral crisis that the US is facing today was not caused during the 2020 electio...
Is PMB (President Muhammadu Buhari) of yesterday different from the PMB of today? The PMB of yesterday was first seen as a good and very disciplined gentleman. He was considered as a new messiah to deliver the people of Nigeria from their life-style of political chicanery. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, he portrayed himself as a patriot, especially with his agenda of War Against Indiscipline (WAI). He was then seen as a man of impeccable integrity. He was feared but loved and respected, at least, for a foundation for a more disciplined society. For instance, during his military admin...