I started off writing this article with the intention to share the link between the love I have for Nigeria and the one shared between couples of arranged marriages; love characterized by patience, tolerance and hope. But as things sometimes [...]
Madam Efunroye Tinubu was among the most prominent and powerful Yoruba women in pre-colonial Nigeria (early to mid 19th century). Other renowned Yoruba women from that period were Iyalode Efunsetan Aniwura and Madam Omosa, both of whom deserve posts of [...]
Looking back, I can attribute a lot of what I am now to simple lessons I learnt from back when I lived on Sesame Street. What lesson does this medium hold for Nigerian education?
As I write this, Shell has just admitted that thousands of barrels of oil have spilt in the Bonga oil leak, the worst Nigeria has seen in over a decade. Nigerian universities are currently shut down on an impermanent strike. There have been more than a [...]
chimamanda adichie has a wonderful piece in newsweek, reposted in the daily beast, that asks whether the jury would have believed dominique strauss-kahn or his alleged victim, guinean immigrant nafissatou diallo. On television, she was familiar: the skin tone that [...]
Horror has come to stay in Nigeria. Or perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps this new phenomenon of horrific afternoons wondering why so many must die has been a fabric of Nigerian lives for a long time; we are only starting [...]
25th December 2011, Christmas day, I was in Church for Mass like Christians all over the world, celebrating the birth of Jesus. Lagos had been agog with fireworks and knockouts all night and the joy was palpable. The tempo in [...]
Maybe my story will make sense if I share my background. I come from a crisscross lineage. Dark as my skin looks to white people, they look amused when they learn about my Irish ancestry. Fair as my skin looks [...]
Since the passing of the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill 2011 [SSMB] by the Nigerian Senate hundreds of online and twitter comments have been made supporting the Bill. By far the majority of these comments have defended the Bill on [...]
On hearing the news of the passing of the Nigerian “Same Sex Marriage Bill 2011, my reaction was, I was too numb to even have a reaction at the miserable state of my country. Did I really expect anything different? Chude [...]
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