Arts

The Blows of Friendship

By Toyin Falola “You don’t know who is important to you until you lose them.”                                                                                    Mahatma Gandhi “Comradeship is not friendship.”                                                                                     Toyin Falola Life is a vast and

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The Feud

By Toyin Falola Friendship carries meaning. It is not merely a relationship between neighbours, though it could exist therein; it is not merely a relationship between roommates, though in that

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Africa Will Never Fail!

Acceptance Speech Upon Receiving the D.Phil., University of Pretoria By Toyin Falola The University of Pretoria, I am grateful. It is on your behalf—graduates, the youths that will transform us—that

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Brother Bernard!

By Toyin Falola Back in the days when I used to stay in a face-me-I-slap-you apartment in Surulere, I used to have a neighbour whom everyone fondly called Brother Bernard.

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