Opinion

Death, Drugs, and Dirges

By Toyin Falola   The chicken perches on the rope The rope is restless, The chicken is off-balance   Should we wear black clothes, take our lamps, and walk barefoot

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Africa: Ideologies and Narrations

By Toyin Falola   Africa’s history cuts across the ancient period, precolonial formations, slavery, colonial, post-colonial, and developmental stages hatched and told by both African and foreign scholars. Today, countless

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God Abeg!

By Toyin Falola       The sociolinguistic property of God Abeg became bare after Oludare Alaba’s hilarious video hovered around social media platforms and raised continuous conversations. Alaba, a

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Why Nigerian presidents fail

Sometime last month, a young Bolt driver asked me: “Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi… who should we vote for?” I’ve been asked similar questions many times by those

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