
The Blows of Friendship
By Toyin Falola “You don’t know who is important to you until you lose them.” Mahatma Gandhi “Comradeship is not friendship.” Toyin Falola Life is a vast and

By Toyin Falola “You don’t know who is important to you until you lose them.” Mahatma Gandhi “Comradeship is not friendship.” Toyin Falola Life is a vast and

By Toyin Falola In thirty days, Professor Abd-Rasheed Na’Allah will vacate his office as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Abuja. He was the pioneer Vice-Chancellor of Kwara State University,

By Toyin Falola From Olusegun Obasanjo to Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan to Muhammadu Buhari, and now to Bola Tinubu, Nigeria has consistently represented a dim future of optimism, with its

By Toyin Falola Keere o! TF is having a town hall meeting with all modern-day females by birth. I know I will likely be dragged by my cute white beards

By Toyin Falola Friendship carries meaning. It is not merely a relationship between neighbours, though it could exist therein; it is not merely a relationship between roommates, though in that

By Kome Odhomor The International Day for Biological Diversity is celebrated on the 22nd of May yearly. is celebrated on the 22nd of May yearly. It aims at raising awareness,

Acceptance Speech Upon Receiving the D.Phil., University of Pretoria By Toyin Falola The University of Pretoria, I am grateful. It is on your behalf—graduates, the youths that will transform us—that

“As the Brussels Forum approaches, the question remains for how long would African countries remain recipients of EU generosity especially when ‘there is no free lunch anywhere, not even in Freetown”. BY

By Toyin Falola Perhaps six decades are not enough to fully understand the gravity of colonial tribulations, for the enduring existential challenges confronting the continent continue to unfold in different

By Toyin Falola Back in the days when I used to stay in a face-me-I-slap-you apartment in Surulere, I used to have a neighbour whom everyone fondly called Brother Bernard.
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