Election
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Although an American classic, Frank Capra’s 1939 “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” offers eternal truths that resonate in all geopolitical landscape. It is a forceful telling of the limit of idealism and the toll of ambition. And as Nigeria’s Muhammadu Buhari took over this past month the rudder of Africa’s largest democracy and its biggest
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President Obama has a problem, and with barely days till Election Day, I am not sure it is a problem he can resolve. Though he may still win this election, he will have to do it without resolving this particular problem. The problem looks unfixable. I shall tell you why and how. This election, as