Who would want to be a Nigerian, in the bitterest moments he finds humour, in action, in words, most times…
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Virus! Silence eats our streets up Mothers hide their babies from the sun Our forebears forbid our visits And the…
The full moon looks like burnt bread—Sukanta Bhattacharya The old English reverend Thomas Malthus was wrong when he wrote that,…
Elean Thomas (1947-2004), a founder of Jamaica’s Workers Party, in her book Before They Can Speak of Flowers: Word Rhythms…
Gambu You dey sing for thieves Gambu You go sing for me Person wey befriend rat go chop shit but…
With the COVID-19 pandemic, the reality is not far away, there are changes, is Nigeria ready, great country, great people,…
“It is very tiresome on the body, as well as scary on the mind.” A few years ago during the…
Once the palace was built, they hired a guard to keep us out. We slept in the dirt, with the…
Let me start this way, a man was trying to get some rest in his home, it is the say…
A child said what is the grass? Fetching it to me with full hands, how could I answer the child?…
With less than three years left for this administration, we are heading in the wrong direction. My beloved President had…
“When I kaput e go hard you”’, said he, To ever find man wey be like me “How you take…
A day after the war If there is a war if after the war there is a day I will…
“A lady in Chicago was reported to have used hammers to kill flies. When asked why she replied that she…
Applying a little wisdom and a little stupidity is how a king administers his kingdom. So I have the video,…
I have reiterated on countless occasions that a nation where her citizens do not have a collective notion regarding what…
I must say something. I must say something. Or else the vast cloud swallows us. I want us to say…
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a…
With a wry smile, before I delve into this admonition, as I like to refer to my essays as, let…
No matter how stout, long and turgid a penis. Its erection cannot intimidate a vagina. In short, a vagina masterminded…
By the time many of us would be reading this, essay it would be the last 48 hours of the…
Kolanut needs no introduction, fish needs no tutoring to swim…this is our Nigeria Don’t look for the meaning of anyhowness,…
So there was this Hausa man who want to see a Yoruba native witch doctor (babalawo), of the native doctor…
There is this African riddle and I think it is most appropriate today and for the few words I have.…
The kangaroo, and the chameleon set out to visit the turtle, after days in the forest trekking, they were almost…
By next week it would be December, the month of Christmas, better put the last month of the year, so…
A coup is a curious thing. Those who make the coup never admit that they have made the coup. They…
In 2017, Issa Shivji delivered the Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Issa,…
To the thinking man, the world is a comedy; to the feeling man, it’s a tragedy. I think all the…
I know from experience that criticisms, even apparently destructive criticisms, are helpful to government—Lateef Jakande, former governor of Lagos state…