Arts

My thoughts on the 2022 Booker Prize

June 3, 2022

For us Indians, I don’t think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can – Kailash Kher By Olayinka Oyegbile Last week, India once

Funmi Olonisakin: The Mainframe of Global Success

May 21, 2022

By Toyin Falola It was at a dinner with the late J. J. Rawlings, the late President of Ghana that I knew who Olufunmilayo Olonisakin is. Rawlings was boasting

In Time Of Crisis: Civilian And Soldier

May 21, 2022

By Wole Soyinka General Ibrahim Attahiru would be immensely pleased and appreciative if he could become aware of another passing being commemorated today, indeed this very moment. The connection is

Akintoye’s journalistic memoir

May 6, 2022

Memoirs are the backstairs of history ~ George Meredith By Olayinka Oyegbile Journalists always feel good saying their profession (journalism) is history written in a hurry. This is no doubt

Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III: The Legacies of a Great King

May 5, 2022

By Toyin Falola I knew the late Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, at a most personal level. We had such a cordial relationship that I had

A CONVERSATION WITH ERNESTO YEBOAH, PART 1

April 27, 2022

Faces of the African Youth Movement for Change BY Toyin Falola Despite being famous for the abundance of its natural resources, Africa has not lived up to its potential

Jack Higgins, best-selling British author, dies at 92

April 12, 2022

Jack Higgins, the British thriller writer whose 85 books sold more than a quarter of a billion copies, has died in his home in Jersey, one of the British Channel

Richard Joseph and the Value of Education

April 4, 2022

By Biko Agozino “It was part of the independent movement that there should be education. Chief Awolowo and his colleagues ensured free education at all levels. Education was

Decolonizing African Studies: Knowledge Production, Agency, and Voice

March 21, 2022

A Thumbnail Review By Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju “Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge” Having at last got my hands on Toyin Falola’s Decolonizing African

Technology, Technical Education, Culture, and Society

March 10, 2022

BY Toyin Falola The cultural orientation and conviction of a set of people define the core of their existence. It is the window through which society and its members could

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