Nigeria, June 7 -- A monk once offered a piece of wisdom that may contain one of the most accurate diagnoses of Nigeria's condition: "Imagine being bitten by a snake and, instead of focusing on healin... Read More
Nigeria, May 3 -- Fela Anikulapo Kuti's Coffin for Head of State was not merely a song. It was a funeral procession disguised as music, an indictment carried on saxophone, anger, memory, and ancestral... Read More
Nigeria, April 26 -- If creeping plants could unite, they would easily tie up an elephant. Politics is full of men who confuse noise for destiny. But destiny, that slippery old masquerade, usually wa... Read More
Nigeria, April 12 -- And Paul said unto the people of Plateau North: be not deceived by garments, by grammar, by convoys, nor by the sudden holiness that falls upon men when election season draweth ne... Read More
Nigeria, March 22 -- "Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?" Harold Pinter asked. In Nigeria, that question lingers like harmattan dust over memory, over hope, over citizenship its... Read More
Nigeria, March 15 -- There is a certain species of complaint now roaming our homes, offices, campuses, and timelines. It is loud, fragile, convinced, and permanently aggrieved. It wants comfort withou... Read More