By Toyin Falola The dynamic city of Ile-Ife is located in the heart of the Yoruba community, where tradition gently intertwines with modernity, generating a complex tapestry of cultural resilience
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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