'Yemi Ademowo Johnson
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Articles by 'Yemi Ademowo Johnson
April 21, 2010
Children in almost all African cultures are bundles of joy that societies often impatiently await their arrivals. The eagerness to have these wondrous creatures, most often than not, has selfish undertone (that of preserving the traditions and cultures as well as family legacies to be imbibed in the...
March 25, 2010
The article examines the Jos Massacre where over 500 lives were lost and calls for justice for the victims
December 16, 2009
The author examines the common notion that morality is foundationed on religions and concluded that the idea is defective.
September 04, 2009
The article analyses two incidents of religious attacks in Nigeria and attempts to unravel the main cause of both crisis.
September 04, 2009
The author examines the clampdown on journalists in The Gambia and suggests the need for Africans to take charge by willing, valuing, desiring and fighting for free press and free speech
June 22, 2009
The unending strife in the Niger-Delta has been a source of concern to many global citizens. Not just because of its economic effects but also for the countless innocent lives, properties and cultural/archaeological monuments that have been lost to the crisis. Despite these colossal losses, it is worrisome to note that the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has refused to address the crux of the crisis, allowing the monster to grow from minor protests to pipeline vandalism, kidnapping for ransoms and, now, full assault on ´all that is Nigerian´. The article examines how to redress the problem. The author, a development anthropology, explores the poverty-violence nexus which has resulted in pervasive frustration in the Niger-Delta.
March 13, 2009
The paper argues that until we secularise ´Shari´ah´ by adopting a soft form of secularism advocacy, injustices will pervade in our world
March 13, 2009
The article examine the role of negative thinking, know as Philosophy of Poverty, in the daily activities of Africans, leaders and followers. It concludes that unless attitudinal change is induced and positive values instituted, Africans, nay Africans, will remain subservient to others.
March 02, 2009
The 'plights of the Akwa Ibom Children', as the Punch Newspapers editorial of 15 January, 2009 described the madness in the name of child-witches hunting and exorcising going on in the state, need the attention of every rational being on the surface of the earth. For as Guardian Newspapers editorial...
March 02, 2009
Happenstances around the world and the rigid stance of many countries to review the draconian life-taking law called death penalty has necessitated the need to import into the public space the unending debate on the desirability or otherwise of the sentence.
The hanging of former Iraqi dictator,...