Lindsay Barrett and Mia Mottley: The Pull of the Diaspora, by Owei Lakemfa
Lindsay Carlton Eseoghene Barrett was a twenty-five-year-old Jamaican when he came from Britain to Nigeria in July 1966 on a few weeks’ visit. Those weeks have stretched to over sixty years, with the playwright, poet, journalist and photographer becoming one of the best-known Nigerians. He was eighty-five years on September 15, and not unexpectedly, I […]
Disasters: Natural and man-made
SOME residents of the Greek holiday resort of Mati in the Rafina region might have thought what they were experiencing on July 24 was the fulfillment of the Biblical pronouncement that God will no longer destroy the world with water, but with fire next time.
Lives get cheaper in Nigeria by the day
I NEVER met Professor Halimatu Sa’adiya Idris, and I will never meet her. At least not on earth. However, I was so angry about the reasons adduced for her removal as Education Commissioner in Katsina State that on January 29, 2018, I wrote a piece in this column titled: “ The difficulty and burden of governance.”
America’s insistence that Africans must wear used clothes
RWANDA is a small landlocked African country with a 24,670 square kilometer, a population of 11.9 million and a GDP of $8.9 Billion. It is with this country, the United States, US, the world’s largest economy with a $20.412 Trillion GDP, a 9,147,420 square kilometre and a population of 326,920,253, has picked a trade war.
Above the noise of governance
Beyond the noise of the political class claiming they had done or are doing wonderfully well in governance, giving themselves pass mark and even writing falsehood as history, Nigerians need to collectively demand for basic governance
Nelson Mandela: Unto us a child was born a century ago
NELSON Mandela, whose birth centenary the world marked this Wednesday, July 18, was a mortal. However, in a fractious world governed by class, racial, religious, regional, gender and numeorus other cleavages, it is almost impossible to find a person who is generally accepted by all as a hero and legend. This is the basis of Mandela’s legacy.
