Wole Soyinka: Has the man died? By Ugoji Egbujo
At almost ninety two, Wole Soyinka remains strong and razor-sharp. The Obidients bear witness to his roar and linguistic agility. Yet three years into his bosom friend’s presidency, and for the first time since 1960, Soyinka appears comfortable with a president’s atrocities and sacrilege. Has the man died? During the 2023 elections he claimed he was out […]
Sani Abacha, the Great: The pathology of a Nigerian disease
Cameron doesn’t understand our uniquely complex system, we can’t prize ourselves out of that slavish sentimentality
Of Area Boys and the bastardization of immunity
Fayose’s understanding of the immunity conferred on him by the constitution is filled with delusions
Bridget Agbahime: One brutal murder and millions of accomplices?
Those who killed the woman are not Muslims.”Agreed, they may be pickpockets
The rise and rise of Justice Jero
Jero is a deity. In church, at PTA meetings, and when he condescends to his town union meetings, he conjures unfathomable dignity. Not the glory of politicians that fades quicker than cheap ‘ankara’ but a permanent invocation of raw awe. Once in a while, at the old boys’, he lets them have the privilege of his scarce humanity. Only a few of his classmates still remember he was never a genius. JB was inconspicuous. Jeroboam, the Justice, is a masquerade.
The International Criminal Court and a treacherous South Africa.
The court is a novel attempt at setting standards and checking impunity. The court is therefore morally indispensable in social craters and dark spots where local authorities lack the willingness or the capacity to bring to book principalities and powers, committing egregious evil against humanity, from hitherto unassailable towers and sanctuaries
