Ayo Akinfe
This is a picture of a German train being sabotaged by French resistance fighters in 1944. In many cases, German military trains were blown up while in the engine shed before they could be deployed to the war front
Like all other resistance fighters across Europe, the French partisans could not match the Nazi military...
Ayo Akinfe
Do you that on July 11 1960, Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Niger Republic all declared their independence from France? Sadly, they did not agree to merge and form one country
That year 1960 was the one which most African nations achieved independence. If we want to be honest about it, after World War Two,...
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Covid-19 scientists
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Clean energy engineers
Gas plant experts
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Consumer goods manufacturers
After World War Two, there was an almighty scramble for the best Nazi brains. The US, Argentina and...
Ayo Akinfe
When I look at the lockdown over Covid-19, I keep seeing parallels with World War Two. During that conflict, nations had to step up the production of new industrial goods like armaments, food was scarce and rationing was introduced in many countries. The US in particular, emerged as an unprecedented industrial economy from...
Ayo Akinfe
Africa is in the middle of earth, Nigeria is almost in the middle of Africa, so we are not just any nation. We should consider ourselves humanity's hope of the 22nd century. Let us start off buy aiming to be the world's largest manufacturer if electric cars by 2030. Let us come up with a revolutionary production regime...
Ayo Akinfe
Palm oil plantation
Cattle ranch
Coconut plantation
Solar farm
Electric car assembly line
Transformer manufacturing factory
Cocoa plantation
Oilseed crushing plant
Malaria pharmaceutical plant
Solar panel assembly plant
When you are the world’s largest black nation, you simply have to think biggest,...
By Ayo Akinfe
If you ask me, what we are currently witnessing is a war. This time it is not against guns and bullets but the effects are the same and as with the case with any war, you need a reconstruction plan. Every war is always followed by a reconstruction plan and this is no different. Does Nigeria have a post-coronavirus...
Ayo Akinfe
In life, very little happens without precedence. What we are seeing in the UK today is a classic case of xenophobic fears coming back to bite a people in the behind. As ever, the chickens always come home to roost
Brexit was nothing but hatred for one’s fellow man disguised as “The right to self determination.”...
Ayo Akinfe
I get terribly exasperated when I hear Nigerians constantly go on about bad government, with no mention of the masses. It is the people that make a nation and governments are only a reflection of the citizenry
Our intellectual laziness also prevents us from analysing what is wrong with our economy, hence why we are...
Ayo Akinfe
As you all know in 2001, the Taliban blew up the two Buddhas of Bamiyan that had been tourist attractions for centuries. Although Afghanistan no longer has a Buddhist community, the smaller 38 m Eastern Buddha was built around 570 AD and the larger 55 m Western Buddha was built around 618 AD. They were both huge tourist...
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