In the last few weeks, I have been asking most of the people I encounter two questions: Do you have health insurance? Are you happy with your health insurance? These are very basic questions, yet, they have the potential to change our whole discourse on health care reform. The number...

After President Barack Obama's landmark victory in the Presidential election's last year, many pundits as well as ordinary Americans were eager to proclaim a new era in American history, "the post-racial era." Many blacks, most especially those who were civil right activists sounded a word of caution which many people...

In its recently concluded summit in Serta, Libya, African leaders decided not to cooperate with the International Criminal Court on the arrest and prosecution of Al-Bashir, the President of Sudan, who has been indicted by the court for war crimes. One of the reasons given for this resolution was offered...

President Barack Obama, in a public statement last week, reminded the leaders of Iran that the world was watching the unfolding events in their country. He wrote, "The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching. We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost...." Prior to this...

It was June 12, 1993. Millions of Nigerians went to the polls to cast their votes in an election that to this date has been judged to be the freest and fairest election that has ever taken place in Nigeria. I was only 15 at the time but I was...