Celebrity Columnists

It’s not often I openly criticize the Lagos State Government. This is not because the state is run by Saints or Lagos is now paradise. No, but I have reasonable access to the leadership. So, I can easily express my concerns to them. On this…

It is a great irony that when some so-called Northern leaders decided to take action against what they perceived as injustice meted against some Northerners in Southern Nigeria, they decided on the tomato war. It is an indication of how complex…

It was the legendary Afrobeat maestro, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, who, in one of his smash hits Beasts of No Nation told us about “animal talk.” The song was the first Fela wrote to critical acclaim after serving 20 months of a five-year prison…

The story of Rachel and Jacob, her sister, Leah and their father, Laban in the Bible has always intrigued me. It tells of how far the world has come from the patriarchal society of the medieval times to the days of the ‘Me too’ movement. If I…

It was the end of an era Tuesday when Bunny Wailer, the last of the original Wailing Wailers passed away, aged 73. Bunny (original name Neville O’Rilley Livingston) completed the trio that formed the reggae music group, Bob Marley and the…