Arts

Preface to a memoir

October 10, 2023

By Olayinka Oyegbile Growing old is one of nature’s infuriating imperfections- Peter Enahoro How time flies. It is October 2023 already and as the clock ticks, that little boy of

The University of Abuja: Proclaim the glories to the mountain top

October 9, 2023

By Toyin Falola October 7, 2023, the University of Abuja. The Chancellor, The Emir of Bauchi, Alhaji (Dr.) Rilwanu Suleiman Adamu, CR, stood up and announced to the huge

Sanwo-Olu says $100m African Film City construction will begin October

October 6, 2023

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Thursday said that the groundbreaking of the proposed $100m African Film City project in Epe would be done before the end

Norwegian writer Fosse wins Nobel Prize in literature

October 5, 2023

A Norwegian author Jon Fosse has been named the 2023 Nobel Prize winner in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable,” the Swedish

Going nostalgic with Fabowale

September 29, 2023

By Olayinka Oyegbile A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness ~Robert Frost (A review of Lola Fabowale’s Nostalgia and

We’ll uphold late Oba Kosoko’s legacies, Oloja of Lagos declares

September 28, 2023

The Oloja of Lagos, Prince Abiola Olojo-Kosoko, on Wednesday urged Nigerians to continue to uphold the legacies of his progenitor, the late Morounfolu Eshinlokun, popularly called “Kosoko”. He

A response to Falola’s ‘Obasanjo, Obadide and Obajoko’

September 25, 2023

By Yinka Agbetuyi Toyin Falola’s “Obasanjo, Obadide and Obajoko” is a timely article that captures the complexities and contradictions of a Yoruba (even Nigerian) in transition. It reframes

UNESCO puts Rwanda genocide memorials on World Heritage list

September 22, 2023

Four memorials to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda of more than 800,000 people, mainly Tutsi, were added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list, the UN cultural body said. The sites

The West and the Hypocrisy of Democracy

September 21, 2023

By Toyin Falola Western deception has been with Africa forever: 1493: Pope Alexander VI issued a papal bull, “Inter Caetera,” proclaiming the right of Spain and Portugal to enslave

Aguoru @ 50

September 19, 2023

By Toyin Falola Numerous people have graced the academic system but not many made indelible marks while in service. It is not the case that those in the latter category

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