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US Drone Strikes in Nigeria: More Bullying “Shithole” than Protecting Christians

Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

This is Trump exporting his White Christian nationalist worldview under the guise of protecting Christians. Nigeria becomes the target not because Christians are uniquely threatened, but because a Black country fits Trump’s “shithole” hierarchy and Project 2025’s moralized militarism. Drone strikes become theology by other means — power dressed up as piety. Never mind that… Read more.

Blood Money: How Zuma’s Daughter Enabled Putin’s African Body Count

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

They promised training but delivered trenches. Jacob Zuma’s family lurches from personal scandals to the recruitment of Africans as cannon fodder in Ukraine. iPINIONS decries how his daughter weaponized historical comradeship into blood tribute, and how African governments across the continent remain complicit. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/blood-money-how-zumas-daughter-enabled Read more.

The Silence of the Celebrities (Like Michelle Obama) as Terrorists Kidnap More Nigerian Schoolgirls

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Terrorists in Nigeria have kidnapped more schoolgirls… iPINIONS chastises celebrities, who once posed with hashtags demanding their return, for being silent now. Read my full take on Substack: Read more.

Namibia: The Blueprint for Women’s Rule

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Namibia has done what so many nations only talk about — put women firmly in charge. iPINIONS asserts that its female-majority government offers a glimpse of what leadership looks like when empathy, collaboration, and competence replace ego, partisanship, and bluster. Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/namibia-the-blueprint-for-womens Read more.

Sudan: Famine in The Time of War

Tuesday, October 1, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Sudan’s lost promise: from potential powerhouse to civil war hellscape In 2011, Sudan seemed on the brink of becoming a regional powerhouse, poised to rival Egypt as a stable and relatively prosperous autocracy. Decades of civil war between the Arab-dominated north and the predominantly Black African south led to the creation of South Sudan. That… Read more.

Coup in Gabon: America Is Partly to Blame

Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 9:07 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Another week, another coup Military coups in Africa are far more regular than presidential elections in America. Africa has had 486 attempted coups since 1950 (214 successful), whereas America has had only 59 elections (and 1 attempted coup). So, waking up this morning to breaking news of a coup in Gabon was hardly surprising. Military officers in Gabon said they… Read more.

Russia-Africa Summit Putin Exploiting African Leaders as Props and Pawns

Friday, July 28, 2023 at 10:14 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Russia is using food as a weapon of war again. Earlier this month, it torpedoed the Black Sea grain deal millions of Africans depend on to survive. That was the elephant in the room at this week’s Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg. African leaders as pawns and props Frankly, the solidarity African leaders showed at the Russia-Africa summit in Petersburg this week… Read more.

WTF! Trump Banning Africans Is Racist but Biden Doing So Is Responsible…?

Saturday, November 27, 2021 at 6:12 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Of course Donald Trump is a racist. But let’s call this spade a spade. President Biden will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other African countries to try to contain a troubling new variant of the coronavirus, senior administration officials said on Friday, though they said it would be impossible to prevent it from… Read more.

‘HARDtalk’ about the International Criminal Court. Hint: It’s a Friggin’ Boondoggle!

Wednesday, June 24, 2020 at 8:04 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Missed opportunities, misappropriations, and miscreants feature prominently in the story of post-colonial Africa. And this journal is replete with commentaries bemoaning it all. But the following quote pretty well sums up my abiding dismay: I just hope the damning irony is not lost on any proud African that, 50 years after decolonization, hundreds of Africans (men, women,… Read more.