A SEASON OF CHANGE
Change! Hmm, please don’t get me started. What change? Is it “change” or “chains”? Is it a change for the better or for worse? Well I don’t have the answers but time will tell. I only know of Read more
Politics
We Must Set Forth At Dawn
I have been doing a lot of borrowing lately. Like the title of this article which was borrowed from Professor Wole Soyinka’s 2007 book of almost the same title, I recently borrowed songs from Read more
Let Us Not Count Our Slaves
‘Ti a b aka eru inu eru a baje’. (If we count the slaves the slaves would be saddened), is one of the folk tales made popular by J. F. Odunjo’s book ‘Alawiye. Most Yoruba people who attended Read more
The Upside of a Falling Economy
The media bombards us daily with screaming headlines of doom and gloom, each successive headline calculated to instill more uncertainty, fear and depression. The conventional wisdom is that Read more
A conversation with my peers
A conversation with my peers Professor Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s only Nobel Laureate, was reported some years ago as lamenting that his generation was a wasted one. Members of Soyinka’s generation Read more
Effective Communication: A leadership problem in Nigeria
I still remember staying awake all night watching the US elections on Television, waiting for Barrack Obama to make history as the first African American President of the USA. Beyond being a Read more