The case for renaming my state capital, by Donu Kogbara
This thought-provoking and slightly edited article, which first appeared in a publication called NewAfrican, was written by my friend and former BBC boss Onyekachi Wambu, a distinguished London-based author and filmmaker. Why do we continue to cling to the colonial names bestowed on our towns and cities? We do this even when the officials after […]
Rivers race
By Donu Kogbara THE gubernatorial race in my home state, Rivers, is being run at fever pitch. The current Governor, Nyesom Wike, is hellbent on installing his successor and has thrown his weight behind a long-standing loyalist – his accountant-general, Sim Fubara. Sim is vying with candidates from other parties for the hottest seat in […]
Farewell to a kid brother
MOST folks called him Mike. I called him Chuks, an abbreviation of his middle name, Elemchukwu.
Farewell to a kid brother
By Donu Kogbara MOST folks called him Mike. I called him Chuks, an abbreviation of his middle name, Elemchukwu. We met when he was a toddler. I wasn’t much older. Our beloved and distinguished late fathers – Senator Francis Ellah and Ignatius Kogbara – had attended the same Catholic secondary school – Holy Family in […]
Dreams in tatters
By Donu Kogbara IN 1999, I was married to an English fellow journalist called Dominic and we were based in London with Oliver, our small son. For all sorts of reasons, I felt like a radical change in direction and wanted to try living in an African country, having grown up in the UK; and […]
Obi-Datti and foreigners
By Donu Kogbara A LAGOS-based lawyer and I were chatting the other day, and she told me that she had been shocked to discover that quite a few of the foreigners she encounters are unenthusiastic about Peter Obi and don’t want him to win the upcoming presidential election. I’ve noticed this lack of enthusiasm too, […]
