Oliver Mbamara
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Articles by this Author
Approaching Genocide: Did We Learn Nothing From Rwanda?
- By Oliver Mbamara
- Published 03/15/2004
- Life Abroad
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Some of the people in Africa and other third-world countries adopt brutal savagery as a means of making their point or establishing their reign but those of us who disapprove of such barbarism in the twentieth century must do something when we see the signs of such approaching mayhem...
Are Diaspora Nigerians Ashamed of Nigeria? Pt 2
- By Oliver Mbamara
- Published 06/16/2003
- Life Abroad
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After landing, we were not allowed to leave the plane for 4 hours. Passengers argued that we were being treated with neglect because the flight was from Africa and full of Nigerians…
Are Diaspora Nigerians Ashamed Of Nigeria?
- By Oliver Mbamara
- Published 05/20/2003
- Life Abroad
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Nigerians in the Diaspora are reluctant to say that they are from Nigeria. Some of us believe we could lose an interview, lose our honor, or perhaps get treated unfairly differently, if we identify with being a Nigerian...
Dilemma of the Nigerian
- By Oliver Mbamara
- Published 03/3/2003
- Life Abroad
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Is the Nigerian in the Diaspora facing condemnation and alienation?
Hoping on Hope (Nigeria at 42)
- By Oliver Mbamara
- Published 10/8/2002
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
Hope alone may not do the magic of revamping Nigeria, but 'to hope' is certainly more fruitful than 'to lose hope,' or to self-destruct...
English is not my First Language
- By Oliver Mbamara
- Published 10/8/2002
- Life Abroad
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In trying to be grammatically correct in the English language, or to imitate the American accent, some of us who did not learn English as a first language deviate from the objectives of a conversation…
The Farmer Who Queried God
- By Oliver Mbamara
- Published 07/21/2002
- Introspective
- Unrated
God of harvest, why have you forsaken me? And made my days of labor to be in vain?
Are You Loving Your Child or Raising a Brat?
- By Oliver Mbamara
- Published 07/21/2002
- Life Abroad
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A typical American child of a typical American parent cannot be raised entirely on the basis of African culture simply because the parent is a diplomat or immigrant in an African society. The same goes for an African parent and an African child in a country in the western world.
The Prophet In Us
- By Oliver Mbamara
- Published 07/21/2002
- Introspective
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In many cases, individuals who have had dreams or prophecies about themselves have gone on to interpret them as applying to the world or others, when in fact the message was a coded one for their personal consumption and utility.
Seeds of Discord
- By Oliver Mbamara
- Published 07/21/2002
- Nigeria Matters
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There is a chance that the coming elections could be peaceful. All those who have sown seeds of discord and laid eggs of destruction under the wings of the Electoral Act debacle will have to look for another way of hatching their eggs.
