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
Nigeria, Feb. 22 -- The road into State X, Local Government Y, Community Z is not a road. It is a long, angry paragraph written in the handwriting of neglect. Every sentence is a pothole. Every comma ... Read More
Nigeria, Feb. 15 -- How many times can a nation rewrite its own ballot before its people stop believing in ink? How long can democracy survive on correction fluid and excuses disguised as reforms? T... Read More
Nigeria, Feb. 8 -- A thief and a politician walked into a supermarket. When they reached the chocolate section, the thief leaned in and whispered, "Let me show you what real professionalism looks... Read More