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
By Wale Okediran Veteran Writer, Prof Ngugi Wa Thiong’o has reiterated his well-known position on the use of Language in African Literature with a new charge to African
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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
By Dul Johnson Let me begin with an appeal, that every Nigerian Diaspora who comes across this write-up, should please endeavour to share it with as many others as they
By Dul Johnson My idea of every Nigerian is every Nigerian of voting age, but it does not matter whether you have a voters’ card or not. You can still
By Dul Johnson With the primaries over, the die is cast and you are now the ones in the eye of the ‘perfect’ storm, so to speak. You are
By Toyin Falola Flee! Japa does not mean to walk away. It is to flee from danger or a compromising situation. It means fleeing an abusive relationship, an
On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, Dr Olu Agunloye, then minister of power and steel, presented a memo to the federal executive council (FEC). He sought its approval to award a
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