Attahiru Jega: The Measure of Excellence and Integrity By Toyin Falola Many people know Professor Attahiru Muhammadu Jega as a Nigerian intellectual with a zeal for excellence
PART 1 SEUN KUTI: MUSIC, POLITICS, AND FELA’S LEGACY Toyin Falola Many questions arise on the death of an influential and famous person, and diverse matters come to
By Olu Obafemi When, not if, (to my mind’s eye, estimation and anticipation,) you win the Nobel Prize, there will be a cascade of post-Award controversies. To be sure, I
By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi Nigeria has often been of keen interest to the international community. It is the most populous black nation in the world, has a vast deposit of oil
By Olayinka Oyegbile The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we
PART 1 Femi Osofisan’s Cordelia: A Short Fiction of Fused Literary Genres By Toyin Falola On November 5th, 2021, at 8 pm, Tunde Kelani will
*Launches book on #Endsars one year after One year after the protests tagged #Endsars that gripped the country last year, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has presented
By Toyin Falola The first time I started to read James Yeku’s poetry collection, I wondered why he chose that title for his book. First off, not many people
Civil society and labour activists on the platform of the Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition have called on African governments to reject water privatisation and demand the return of
I spent over 20 years of my working life abroad as a university teacher, banker and international civil servant with an unblemished record. I have no criminal record — not
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