So let me start this way, this essay was originally written some seven years ago, under the original title “Northern…
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The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe because its handle was made of wood, and…
2023 is far, but in politics, it is tomorrow, and tomorrow is far, we are seeing the opinions fly…The fear…
Monsieur Dupont calls you uncultured because you cannot say who was Victor Hugo’s favourite grandson. Herr Müller has started to…
Two-point-eight-billion naira Oil money is still missing Two-point-eight-billion naira Oil money is still missing Them set up inquiry Them say…
‘The monkey is trapped not by anything physical, but by an idea, unable to see that a principle that served…
A few years ago I told a friend, and lawyer Barrister Madaki that Nigeria was (and still is) a wonderful…
It is easier to wake a man sleeping than a man pretending to be asleep…these are the words of our…
Everything has beauty not everyone sees it—Confucius So over the week, I had the pleasure of some wonderful Fulani guests,…
You don’t ask a toad to give you a chair. You can vividly see it’s squatting. To say that Nigerians…
So when there is no shooting inside the Presidential Villa, involving the aides of the First Lady, (an office itself…
The water between us remembers, so we wear our history on our skin, long for a sea-bath and hope the…
Who would want to be a Nigerian, in the bitterest moments he finds humour, in action, in words, most times…
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…