By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Racism is flaring its ugly head again on the island of Hispaniola, a Caribbean island shared by Haiti and the...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Over a picture of two bearded tuxedo-clad men kissing, a Nigerian-born acquaintance of mine posted the following on Facebook: “May...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist In Manchester, one of Great Britain’s largest cities, only 209 of the 6,700 police officers carry guns. These officers are...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist A couple of weeks ago, law enforcement officials in Mauritania arrested nine people for doing something the government considers radical:...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Considerable fanfare greeted Israel’s airlift of tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews in the 1980s and 1990s. The Israeli government...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Considerable fanfare greeted Israel’s airlift of tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews in the 1980s and 1990s. The Israeli government...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Long before China and India became the economic wonders of Asia, there was Singapore, a small, diverse country with no...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist As a child growing up in Africa, one of the first history lessons I learned was about leaders of anti-colonial...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist One day in late February 1965, an interracial group of 29 university students rode into a small, segregated town...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist They were young and largely impoverished. To find work, they had migrated from their native Egypt to a mid-coastal...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist They were young and largely impoverished. To find work, they had migrated from their native Egypt to a mid-coastal...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist I believe customs generally fall into three categories: inexcusable, curious if a little questionable, and fascinating. Some customs – the...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Nigeria, Africa’s so-called giant and the world’s biggest Black nation, is in the news again. And as usual, much of...