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 […]
Isaac Boro: A man meets a Nation
Boro chose a different course, navigating into the creeks of the Niger Delta with its dense forests where he began what seemed an unwinnable armed struggle
Dance the guns to silence
Africa Day is a product of the struggles of Nkrumah and other Pan Africanists who organised the continent to establish a single body; the Organisation of African Unity, OAU
In the trenches of journalism and activism with Babafemi Ojudu
Political detainees like Ojudu were freed but not so for one of the journalists in his newspaper stable, Bagauda Kaltho who was apparently murdered in detention
The sphinx of violence
I have read about fears by some Africans that Trump might have revealed secrets to the Russians and I am amused; if he did, what business of ours is that?
The strength to remain standing
NINETEEN journalists were detained by the military following the April 22, 1990 attempted coup. It was a season of bloodbath and a number of us journalists who were free including Richard Akinnola, Lanre Arogundade, Kelly Elisha, Tunji Bello, Femi Ojudu, Ladi Lawal, Kayode Komolafe and then newly elected President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Sani Zorro, swung into action.
