Arts

“GOD WHEN!?”

August 15, 2022

By Toyin Falola The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present

Chika Okeke-Agulu: Shining the Spotlight on a True “Son of the Soil”

August 4, 2022

By Toyin Falola Some days ago, Tobi Amusan broke the world record for the female 100-meter hurdles sprint. Reading the news story, I was thrilled that someone had yet

Those who respect the elderly pave their own road toward success – African proverb (Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation, Bola Dauda and Toyin Falola, Bloomsbury Academic, New York,

Alternative Paths to Ghana’s Success

July 24, 2022

By Toyin Falola There is always a community of Afro-pessimistic scholars, occasionally joined by their in-house accomplices, who assert that the unity and togetherness that Africans try to muster

Finalists for 2022 prize for Isaac Oluwole Delano Prize for Yoruba Studies announced

July 14, 2022

Babcock University, the Isaac Delano Foundation, and Pan-African University Press have announced the 2022 Finalists for the Isaac Oluwole Delano Prize for Yoruba Studies. The prize was instituted to reward

Anthony Asiwaju’s Bridging African Boundaries: A Three-part Blueprint for Every Progress-driven African Leader

July 6, 2022

By Toyin Falola As I read through the first few pages of Emeritus Professor Anthony Asiwaju’s Bridging African Boundaries: Cross-Border Areas and Regional Integration in Comparative History and Policy

MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN AND THE 2023 ELECTIONS

June 20, 2022

By Dul Johnson Those born between 1950 and 1970 are Nigeria’s midnight’s children. They are the special ones born in the period surrounding Nigeria’s independence in 1960. They are the

A CONVERSATION WITH DEBO ADEDAYO (MR. MACARONI) PART 3

June 19, 2022

Debo Adedayo: Skit, Culture, and Politics BY Toyin Falola This is the final interview report with Debo Adedayo (alias Mr. Macaroni) on June 12, 2022. Viewership figures on television,

A CONVERSATION WITH DEBO ADEDAYO (MR. MACARONI) PART 2

June 17, 2022

This is the interview report with Debo Adedayo on June 12, 2022. Viewership figures on television, radios, and over a dozen platforms reached over fifteen million by June 15, 2022.

2023 AND THE MEDIA

June 15, 2022

By Dul Johnson The time-honoured saying that the pen is mightier than the sword remains a fact. The media is a powerful group in the 2023 project. The media

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