Why African Intellectualism Needs to Move Beyond Decolonisation
Olayemi Olaniyi More than 60 years after independence, decolonisation remains appealing to large swaths of Africans. Writers and other creative…
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Nigerian Lecturers are now Dancing on TikTok
My friend John made a laughable prediction during one of our many conversations last year. On this auspicious…
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Nigeria is a fascinating place to the foreign observer. But more so to its citizens who live within…
Read MoreWhy I Don’t Want Sharia in Oyo State
Usually, when you say anything critical of Islam as a non-Muslim, you get accused of not knowing what…
Read MoreNaija to the World: Deconstructing the Myth of Nigerian Exceptionalism
A few months ago, I joined a WhatsApp group created for prospective volunteers for an African Union initiative.…
Read MoreKemi Badenoch, Davido, Tayo Aina and the Overton Window of Nigerian Patriotism
Nigeria is hardly a nation of patriots. From the outside, you may be mistaken to believe Nigerians are…
Read MoreReflections on Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism
I was in Ghana recently for a peace forum. I made new friends and reconnected with old ones.…
Read MoreAdeboye’s Non-apology
Enoch Adeboye, the Daddy G.O* of the Redeemed Christian Church of God is an interesting guy. He is…
Read MoreIdris Elba, Things Fall Apart, and Culture Gatekeepers
To my shame, I read Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart for the first time as a freshman at…
Read MoreI AM A CHOSEN Trend as Symptom of Post-dogmatic Nigeria
I’m fascinated by religion as an evolutionary adaption for social cohesion. I may have talked about religion ad…
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