THE scenario has various strands of familiarity. I mean the military coup of Wednesday, August 30, 2023 that removed Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba. An elected African dictator in a well-fortified Presidential Palace finds his palace has become his prison. It is like the fish realising that the water it is swimming in is boiling. Read More…
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Of Moms and Daughters
This would be my second article on parenting, and I’ll be drawing inspiration from my relationship with my mom, and daughter and from what I have observed around me. Raising boys and girls can be both similar and different at the same time. With girls, aside from teaching us to be proper and conform to Read More…
How JP Clark Led Achebe and Soyinka To IBB
Writing is fighting. That is the dictum of the fiery African-American writer Ishmael Reed who wrote a book entitled Writing is Fighting. Whether taken literally or otherwise writers fire bullets with words, and in some instances actually take up guns to go shooting. A landmark example was Nigeria’s most influential poet, Christopher Okigbo, who died Read More…
Self Care 101
Self-care is the intentional act of protecting one’s own well-being and happiness, especially during times of stress. This begins with being kind to yourself. Society and family place a very huge expectation on women, and so we tend to be hard on ourselves and always blame ourselves when things don’t go as planned or as Read More…
Living with an unbelieving spouse
(1 Corinthians 7:12–16; 1 Peter 3:1–7) One situation that many believers in Jesus Christ need the light of the word of God to deal with is how an unbeliever may live successfully with an unbeliever within marriage. The marital condition in which a born-again Christian is involved with an unbeliever is quite prevalent today. Such Read More…
If democracy comes to grief, blame politicians!
There are some bitter truths that those in the temporary house of power may not like to hear. One such truth is the fact that democracy is not a surefire assurance that a country will prosper. Autocracy, its supposed opposite, is also not guaranteed to lead to misery. If Democracy were an infallible system of Read More…
Kay Laro: The diplomat as humanist
I WAS to attend the International Labour Organisation, ILO, Conference for two weeks in 2011 and was late in making accommodation arrangements in Geneva. I turned to Ambassador Ayo Olukanni, then Nigerian Deputy Ambassador in Vienna, Austria, to see if he had somebody who could check out the hotels and make a booking. Olukanni had Read More…
Zakes Mda: A Life Forged on Borders and Belonging
Interview by Olatoun Gabi-Williams The life of Zakes Mda, the celebrated South African artist, composer, writer, and activist, is a testament to the power of resilience, belonging, and the indomitable spirit of a man born into a world overshadowed by apartheid. In this riveting personality feature article, we delve into the extraordinary journey of this Read More…
10 Frugal Shopping Tips You’ve Probably Never Heard of Before
I really cannot explain why but the first thing we did when we heard the news of the removal of fuel subsidy was to rush to the market to buy a bag of rice for starters. As the value of the naira keeps depreciating, the exchange rates are nothing but a nightmare. If ever there Read More…
President Tinubu Discovers Ice In Macondo
Let the whole wide world join me in universal celebration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who has just repeated the immortal feat of discovering ice. The first time ice was ever discovered in human history was in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. According to the opening sentence of One Read More…