Wale Bakare

I have always been ambivalent in my feelings about the wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari. In my opinion, she is as much of an ideal First Lady as she is a nightmare as the wife of the leader of a government. I explain. As First Lady, she…

As Sule, my Plumber got off the ‘Okada’ in front of my house, he carefully took off his plastic Safety Helmet and put it in the tool bag he carried with him. Sule was very particular about the things he allowed to touch his head and he had no…

As Bunmi walked into the expansive departure lounge of the Manitoba airport, he noticed that the signs of human activity were rather minimal. It was a ghost town and he was the only passenger, as far as he could tell. Though a few of the…

As Kingsley expertly maneuvered the Toyota Camry through the streets of Enugu and we headed towards Isu-Awaa, we drove past a billboard with a picture of the Governor proudly announcing that “Enugu State is in the hands of God”. I got to…

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…