‘Not as exotic as you’: The poetics of difference and othering
By Oko Owi Ocho Afrika Isaac Miebi Mandez creates a persona who is in therapy—but it is a collective self-therapy that takes us through the history of colonial violence, the continued impact of the wound of that violence, and what Frantz Fanon had noted as the continuity of the wound of colonialism, which we have […]
Warri ‘gra-gra’ no action
By Sunny Ikhioya THE name Warri, both as a city and a people, is a bundle of contradiction, a paradox of sort. A city with a deep history of commerce and business, but now in decline. A people of boldness and audacity – they conquered coronavirus with ogogoro and other local herbs – that they […]
With leadership, tech support, Nigerian youth can drive beyond Uber
By Okoh Aihe There is something about the Bible that makes it the bestseller of all time. Very profound. With journeys into the past and projections into the future, holding out the mysteries of life as it mocks man to provide understanding. The depth is unsearchable, that is what it says, but that depth in […]
How Gen Nwachukwu used economic diplomacy to salvage Nigeria’s growth, development
By Godknows Igali One of Nigeria’s most outstanding military-diplomats, General Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu, turns 80 years today, 1st September 2020. Born in the “Garden City” of Port-Harcourt, this urbane-debonair-cavalier and gentlemanly former military officer stands tall and celebrated as the man with the mida’s touch, who brought aggressive economic engagement to define Nigeria’s foreign […]
Re-investors dump Lagos as Ogun becomes new industrial hub
No! Lagos is run on law and order. Any study giving the impression that Lagos is a place where corporate organisations are attacked at will is at best spurious and at most dubious.
Edo Election: ‘Character, Performance favour Obaseki’
In seasons of intense politics, truth is always the first casualty. So it is in Edo State at the moment, elections are holding on September 19, 2020, and the people are trying to understand the true meaning of reverse thinking, of the difference between the two major candidates…
