Lekan Oguntoyinbo
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Jimmy Carter: America’s Best Former President
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist I became an admirer of Jimmy Carter shortly after he took office as the…
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Black Lives Should Matter to Black Killers, Too
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist I applaud the Black Lives Matter Movement for renewing attention on police violence against…
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Obama Needs to Do More to Halt Female Genital Mutilation
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Many years ago, as a single man in my early 30s, I dated a…
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Haitians in the Dominican Republic Risk Becoming Stateless
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Racism is flaring its ugly head again on the island of Hispaniola, a Caribbean…
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US. Should Not Pressure Africa to Embrace Same-Sex Unions
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Over a picture of two bearded tuxedo-clad men kissing, a Nigerian-born acquaintance of mine…
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U.S. Should Take Gun Lessons from Britain
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist In Manchester, one of Great Britain’s largest cities, only 209 of the 6,700 police…
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Slavery Thrives in Some Countries
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist A couple of weeks ago, law enforcement officials in Mauritania arrested nine people for…
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Ethiopian Jews in Israel Fight for Acceptance
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Considerable fanfare greeted Israel’s airlift of tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews in the…
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Is Democracy Overrated?
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Long before China and India became the economic wonders of Asia, there was Singapore,…
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Proud to be Labeled ‘Anti-Colonialist’
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist As a child growing up in Africa, one of the first history lessons I…
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