The MaroonSquare

The Maroonsquare Discourse 2023.
Theme: The Face of Poverty in Nigeria. Holding on Wednesday, 8th November, 2022 at the Science Auditorium, Federal College of Education (Tech), Akoka, Yaba, Lagos.

....writerly – critic who is so much concerned about his dying country run by a bandit class masquerading as a ruling class. This class and its ilk are like dubious merchants trading in the commodity of power. A Thief and His Apprentices is a textualisation of what Chiemeke has experienced, seen and felt and known as a conscious student, an activist, human rights worker and crusader, radical lawyer and a Pan-Africanist with a deep sense and understanding of Nigeria and the world order.

'A Thief and His Apprentice’ where Dubious Merchants Trade in Power - Maroonsquare Book Review The Nigerian crisis has deepened so much with devastating impacts on the people and the country itself. Many otherwise hopeful and patriotic citizens are beginning to doubt justifiably the possibility of the country surviving having been consistently and continually ravished by an irresp...

The corporate press facilitated the commission of horrific crimes by promoting the war as a “just cause,” a necessary response to September 11, 2001. Those who exposed the real character of the war in Afghanistan—including Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Daniel Hale—were locked up in prison. READ MORE

And so it begins again: The media recycles Afghanistan war lies - Maroonsquare In the days following the desperate evacuation of US troops from Afghanistan, the corporate press has launched an international propaganda campaign raising concerns for the “human rights” of residents of the Central Asian country. For the last 20 years, the corporate media and imperialist powers...