Africans and their Cuban cousins: A debt of gratitude – By Owei Lakemfa …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>
TO a number of us Nigerians, Plot 339, Diplomatic Drive, beside the United Nations Building, Abuja, is a familiar address. It is the Cuban Embassy in Nigeria. It was where we gathered on Friday, October 18, 2024 to mark 50 years of diplomatic relations between Nigeria and Cuba.
It is like no other embassy in Nigeria because there you have diplomats who do not just see all human beings as equals, but some have actually traced their origins to Nigeria. This is no fluke. Cuban children are actually taught that 90 per cent of them are of African origin.
I recall in 2016, when then…
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