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 […]
Now that Buhari is ECOWAS Chairman
ONE of the first things I learnt about leadership is the William Shakespeare quotation that: “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
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
