Femi Akomolafe
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- Jul 20, 2026
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Africa: Why the Obsession With NGOism? (opens the original)
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Africa has been told so many colossal lies, but some grand civilizational falsehoods have become so deeply embedded in the public consciousness that generations cease to question them. Perhaps the most expensive and most enduring lie ever sold to Africa is the pious fiction that an army of foreign-funded Non-Governmental Organizations can develop a continent. This patent lie told to us for ages is one of those absurd propositions that it could only have gained acceptance among Africa’s political
Why did we stop using the PWD? (opens the original)
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A question that pops into the mind whenever we consider the state of affairs in Africa is: from where came the peculiar amnesia that afflicts our continent and compels us to discard the very structures that once promised order and collective well-being in our society, only for us to embrace the decaying carcass of a foreign ideology enthusiastically? I don't speak of romanticized pre-colonial utopias but of tangible, albeit colonial-era, institutions such as the Public Works Department (PWD) and
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