Owei Lakemfa

Calypso: Enslaved African gift and its Mighty Sparrow, by Owei Lakemfa

Calypso: Enslaved African gift and its Mighty Sparrow, by Owei Lakemfa

Slinger Francisco, better known as Mighty Sparrow, the “Calypso King of the World”, flew away on September 27, 2026. He was ninety. Calypso music was invented in the seventeenth century by African slaves in Trinidad who had mainly been taken from the Ibibio, Efik and Igbo peoples in present-day Nigeria and Congo. It is generally […]
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The journalist as a guerrilla: Saharawi as jungle experts, by Owei Lakemfa

The journalist as a guerrilla: Saharawi as jungle experts, by Owei Lakemfa

THE journalist is needed everywhere, but is endangered everywhere. Hence humanity declared May 3 as World Press Freedom Day to highlight the importance of the profession and the need for freedom of the press in the context of current global affairs. Tragically, the day has become like a body count of journalists killed, those of them […]

Workers problematic search for justice at the National Industrial Court, by Owei Lakemfa

Workers problematic search for justice at the National Industrial Court, by Owei Lakemfa

THIS year’s May Day was an opportunity for Nigerian labour centres to examine how workers are faring under the laws and their general well-being in a stifling socio-economic society. It was an occasion which revealed that even their quest for justice, in a supposed arbitration system, can be quite problematic. Justice Benedict Bakwaph Kanyip, President of […]

May Day calls and clashes in a Year of Genocide, by Owei Lakemfa

May Day calls and clashes in a Year of Genocide, by Owei Lakemfa

THE streets of the world exploded on Wednesday as workers and students, marchers and protesters, sent May Day calls and, in several cities, clashes erupted over local needs and international concerns. The streets of France, Greece, United States, Chile, Cuba and several cities around the globe, quaked over the Gaza War. In Nigeria where abysmally […]

A walk in Abuja amongst Spanish speakers, by Owei Lakemfa

A walk in Abuja amongst Spanish speakers, by Owei Lakemfa

UNLESS they spoke English or their speeches were translated, to me, they spoke Greek. It was an achievement for my old friend, Juan Ignacio Sell, the Spanish Ambassador who introduces me as his nephew. The setting on Thursday, April 25, 2024, was the ‘Day of Spanish Language’. It was the first time the delegations of […]