Wages of irresponsibility, by Muyiwa Adetiba
Traffic jams along the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway are not new. They are in fact, almost ritualistic. It is as if some gods want to exert some toll on commuters from time to time and we are yet to come to terms with ways of appeasing them without donating blood. The traffic gridlock around the notorious Kara […]
Cracks on the wall
By Muyiwa Adetiba It is easy to spot reptiles when a house is clean and uncluttered. In fact any reptile straying into such a house would try to make good its exit almost immediately because there would be no hiding place. But a house that is dirty and cluttered offers itself as a dwelling place […]
Calm down, please calm down
By Muyiwa Adetiba Superstar Stevie Wonder and I were sitting across the table getting ready for an interview. I in anticipation,he probably as one of the chores he had to endure. This was during FESTAC 77 when he was at the peak of his incredible musical prowess – his album ‘songs in the key of […]
Swatting a fly with a sledgehammer
By Muyiwa Adetiba Anyone who lives or has lived in Nigeria knows that the occupy Lekki protest of last Saturday would not hold. And if it did, it would be low key probably with some casualties on the side of the protesters. They would know that the balance of the power which was touted by […]
If you were hungry, what would you do?
By Muyiwa Adetiba You don’t drop an egg and lament that it is broken’. Those were the words of the late Tanzanian President, Mr Julius Nyerere to me during an interview. Although they were said in a different context, the words sometimes come to me when I think of the socio/economic situation of our country. […]
Who is your neighbour?
By Muyiwa Adetiba Many of us know the words ‘The Good Samaritan’ but may not know from where they originated, and in which context. The words came up when Jesus was asked the definition of a neighbour by a teacher of the law and Jesus replied with a story as he was wont to do. […]
