‘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 […]
Re: Of godfathers and judicial pronouncements
Do judges conduct fresh elections inside the courtroom for the two contending candidates who come before them for adjudication?
Confronting the power challenge
Groups with capabilities to provide power should be given permission to do so. Enough of the exploitation and manipulation
How to make Nigeria work by Atiku
The reality is that our nation does not work well whether we focus on security, education, economic production, employment generation and people’s welfare or we focus on governance and politics or the relationships among our diverse ethnic, regional, and religious groupings. Our government relies excessively on rent derived from a single export product, crude oil, […]
Buhari and the Marabouts by Reuben Abati
“Have you read Lauretta Onochie’s latest post?” “Lauretta. Lauretta. Who is she?” “She is a social media assistant at the Presidency. She shoots straight and direct. She defends President Muhammadu Buhari with the passion of someone the President treats like a daughter.” “Not a son, this time, a daughter! Interesting. Of power, fathers, wives, sons […]
The sons of perdition and the lamentation of the blind by FFK
Instead of responding to the words of Eric Joyce, the former British MP who told the world via his twitter handle on 19th May that President Muhammadu Buhari had died in a London hospital, Deacon Femi Adesina, the Special Advisor to the President on Media, in an essay titled “They Learnt Nothing and They Forgot Nothing”, wrote like a true corpsocrat, refused to clarify the matter and instead said that he was ready to follow Buhari “into battle blindfolded”
