Women & Patriarchal Power in the Selected Novels of Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Monday, 15 February 2010 05:08
Dr. S. Okechukwu Mezu
 WOMEN & PATRIARCHAL POWER
In the Selected Works of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
By Dr. Albert Mugambi Rutere
A critical study that examines various strategies which women use to respond to patriarchy. Analyzing Ngugi’s Weep Not, Child, The River Between, A Grain of Wheat, Petals of Blood, Devil on the Cross, and Wizard of the Crow, it exposes the challenges and constraints which women face in deconstructing patriarchy.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 05:33
GOODLUCK JONATHAN OF NIGERIA
Monday, 15 February 2010 00:24
Dr. S. Okechukwu Mezu
VICE PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN OF NIGERIA:
National Assembly Resolution and the Transfer of Power
By Dr. S. Okechukwu Mezu
WHAT THE CONSTITUTION SAYS:
Supposedly, it was the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that created the National Assembly (Senate and House of Representatives), the Executive Branch (President, Vice President and Federal Executive Council of the Federal Republic of Nigeria) and the electoral laws and the organ Independent National Election Commission (INEC) that conducted the elections that brought the present occupants to power. There were of course no elections in 2007 but a chronicle of shame and deceit Nigerian elections 2007... . This is not the subject of this article. The crucial question here is - does that National Assembly have the legal standing to transfer the way it did to the Vice President of Nigeria the powers of the President of the Federation? The answer is a decided NO. It is illegal, ultra vires, null, void and of no effect.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:26
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HON AMBROSE CHUKWUDI MEZU
Tuesday, 12 August 2008 10:00
HON. A. C. MEZU
(October 7, 1935 – January 5, 2008)
by Dr. S. Okechukwu Mezu
Hon. Ambrose Chukwudi Mezu (popularly known as AC) was born on October 7, 1935 by Clement Ugwuezuonu Mezu and Rose Nlemdiuwaoma Mezu nee Akuta who were married a year earlier (1934) and Mr Clement Mezu, was then the headmaster at Imerienwe Central School. A precocious and brilliant student, Ambrose Chukwudi Mezu attended elementary school at Christ the King School (CKS) Amaimo in Ikeduru and later at Our Lady’s School, Emekuku, before proceeding to St. Patrick’s College, Ikot-Ansa, Calabar for his secondary education.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 15:24
Nigerian Elections 2007
Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54
Dr. S. Okechukwu Mezu
S. Okechukwu Mezu. Nigerian Elections 2007:Chronicle of Shame and Deceit. Baltimore, Black Academy Press, 2007, 168 p
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Preface
This Nigerian Election Must Not Be Allowed to Stand
Nigerian Elections 2007 have come and gone. It was a chronicle of shame and deceit: shame to the country and deceit of the population. It must not be allowed to stand.
As early as December 2006, Nigerians knew and the world confirmed it that the Obasanjo’s government and INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) would not be ready for the election. Pierre-Richard Prosper, a former US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crime Issues, led a ten-man delegation from the International Republican Institute (IRI), Washington D.C. that spent one week in Nigeria to assess the country’s readiness for a free and fair election in April 2007.
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There is No Tradition of same gender marriage in Igboland
Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54
Dr. S. Okechukwu Mezu
In an article “Tradition of same gender marriage in Igboland,” published in the Nigerian Tribune, Lagos: Friday, June 19, 2009, Leo Igwe wrote: “One of the contentious issues in the debate over homosexuality and same sex marriage is whether a marriage between persons of the same gender is totally alien to African culture and tradition. Those opposing same sex marriage have continued to argue that same gender union is foreign to Africa. On the contrary, I have tried to draw their attention to the fact that there is a strain of the same gender marriage in African tradition particularly in Igboland.”
Contrary to Leo Igwe's opinion, there is absolutely no tradition of same gender marriage in Igbo land. One would normally ignore the article if Leo Igwe had not tried to drag a whole Igbo nation into his pseudo-philosophical exegesis
The Man Called Ambrose: Hon. A.C.Mezu (1935- 2008)
Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54
At 12.30 a.m. on Sunday, January 6, 2008, Feast of the Epiphany, barely into the New Year, Hon. Ambrose Chukwudi Mezu passed away. It was not just the shock that Ambu (as family members and friends called him) is no more but it was the crystal clear, irrevocable finality of death that struck an unmistakable chord in my heart and brain.
So many memories abound of the man called Ambrose – flamboyant, fun-loving, classily fashionable, grandiloquent, loquacious even, but intrepidly courageous and brutally honest.
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