Adeye is The African Exponent's West African Correspondent based on Abuja, Nigeria. He covers all West African Stories that matter with a slick African style.
The grip of neocolonialism on Africa’s economic sovereignty is getting tighter every year. African leaders are under the shackles of neocolonialism to the extent that they seek to please neocolonial masters more than their people. This is what Kwame Nkrumah always warned about – that Africa needed to unshackle itself
The 2018 movie Black Panther gained worldwide acclaim and won three academy awards the year following its release, the first Oscars for Marvel studios. The movie that stars the deceased actor, Chadwick Boseman has become a cultural watershed in popular and Black culture all over the globe for its "
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The emergence of the internet has brought substantial economic advantages across the globe. It has allowed people to improve the quality of their lives and opened access to previously inaccessible things. According to a 2020 report, there are 525 million internet users in Africa. The figure surpasses those in Latin
An African named Mansa Musa remains the wealthiest man that ever lived. He was the tenth emperor of Mali whose wealth has been described as too vast to be imagined—or equalled. Modern-day financial analysts have tried to quantify his wealth, and they report that his estimated value sits around
These are frightening times we are living in! We are all in the midst of a worldwide pandemic that has led to entire countries and cities shutting down. We are living in fear of contracting coronavirus or losing those we love to it. While we are all trying to brace
IML or In-Mould Labelling is an innovative packaging technology that has brought significant changes in the packaging industry. Unlike traditional packaging where packages and labels stay separate, In-Mould Labelling joins both of them. Thus, IML packaging solutions have made packaging simpler, cost-effective, attractive, and more functional than the traditional packaging
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Today, history remembers the nine black students as the Little Rock Nine, a group of nine young black students who were used to judge the level of acceptance African Americans would receive in public schools after racial segregation had been declared unconstitutional. The nine students were enrolled at an all-white
The coronavirus pandemic has caused a uniform application of nationwide lockdowns around the world. The lockdowns have been labeled by the United Nations news as “repressive laws”, governments have acknowledged that they are a necessary evil that must be implemented to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. It is
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Late Monday night, on February 24, an Italian citizen flew into the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. The next day, the 44-year-old man went to work in Ogun State. The following day, he visited a staff clinic where he was suspected of having COVID-19 and promptly transferred to the
The English international who has risen through the ranks of Borrusia Dortmund to realize his potential after securing a move from Manchester city last year has attracted interests from different clubs in Europe and these are the top clubs Earlier reports having had reported that the 22 year old could
If they could rewind time, would officials from the World Health Organization have declared COVID-19 a pandemic earlier? Questions of whether to declare it a pandemic and why it wasn’t declared sooner have been common during WHO’s thrice weekly news conferences. Yesterday was no different. The responses tend
The emergence and spread of the coronavirus in Africa have been accompanied by misinformation. Since the news of Covid-19 first broke a few months ago, people all over Africa and the world, in general, have scrambled for information, this has led many to consume and spread misconceptions about the pandemic,
Is This Good or Bad News For The People of Guinea? In recent years it has become increasingly obvious that China is not transparent in its business dealings on the African continent. But despite the country’s untrustworthy reputation, a Chinese consortium was given the rights to develop two blocks
