Wole Soyinka

As an undergraduate, I attended a symposium at the great Oduduwa Hall at the then University of Ife, and Wole Soyinka, not yet a Nobel laureate, spoke like a past master. Spry and combatant, he lamented how brick and mortar was becoming lord…

The news last week that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had begun a probe into the finances of former governor of Lagos State and All Progressives Congress (EFCC) strongman, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, literally shattered the…

From Olusegun Obasanjo to Goodluck Jonathan and now Muhammadu Buhari, ‘triumphalism’ by members of the ethnic group whose ‘son’ is in power has become the defining ethos of their relationship with other Nigerians. This display of arrogance of…

Love at gunpoint. That is the mantra in Nigeria today. It was Valentine’s Day on the Sunday but the news all over the land was of Fulani herdsmen storming from the forests with AK47, kidnapping, raping and killing. How can man and woman…

Wole Soyinka, last week, wrote about mad cows and madder narratives. Where else do cows, what they eat, how they eat, and where they eat dominate discourses in the 21st century if not in a kingdom of fools? And, again, last week in Ibadan,…