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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Yesterday, we did not prepare for today

By Owei Lakemfa THERE is virtual chaos in the country today. The right hand does not seem to know what the left is doing. The presence or absence of President Muhammadu Buhari in the country, makes no difference; the country is on some autopilot. The tragedy is that we did not design the system that […]

Meddlesome international do-gooders in Nigeria

By Owei Lakemfa IN the name of order or for disorder, but definitely in their interests, international powers perpetually intervene in African affairs in order to build the world in their graven image. This week, the United States, US, under the cover of human rights, intervened in the Nigerian judicial process. There were mass protests […]

Nobody need bring down the Buhari government

By Owei Lakemfa NIGERIAN Presidential spokespersons behave like people who stumble out of a bar, spew things at the public, and return to their seats to continue their favourite pastime. The country is in the grip of serious security crises with some 800 students abducted from five locations within four months, bandits laying siege on […]

El Saadawi: Truth in a world that lies

By Owei Lakemfa SOME conscious, radical and conscientious women in Nigeria, and males who believe in the equality of all humans, met in 1982 on how to emancipate women. Thus was born, the Women In Nigeria, WIN, movement which was to play decisive roles in campaigning for the human rights of all, especially women. Some […]

The truth in the DNA of falsehood

  By Owei Lakemfa BANDITS have taken over parts of the country, especially the North West, in a determined effort to make banditry the most lucrative industry in the country. While they are united in their efforts and are growing bolder, the governors of the states are divided. Some governors see the bandits as victims […]

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