After observing carefully what is going on in the Social Media among Nigerians, more especially among the youths, I am left with many questions unanswered. Why have we all forgotten what really matters for our nation? Why have everybody been lured into focusing on less important matters of national interest? Who really cares about this nation, politicians? religious leaders? the youth? who? Where are the true compatriots? What about the labours of…
La plus grande joie d´un victime d´injustice est de voir lever les supporteurs de droit de l´homme ; des gens qui disent non à leur domination. Le terrible évènement de la semaine dernière qui a vu mourir le fondateur de Charlie Hebdo et onze autres personnes en France sera peut-être parmi les évènements les plus marquants de l´année 2015. C´était un évènement qui visait à faire taire l´une des voix les plus…
The greatest joy of a victim of injustice is to see human right activists rise up; to see people who can say no to his oppression stand out. The terrible incident of last week that brought the founder of Charlie Hebdo and 11 other French citizens to their early grave might be the most notorious of its kind this year 2015. The target of the perpetrators was to silence one of the…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in her normal way, has come up with another topic of great interest. She has thrown up a new debate that might not be welcomed by many, not just because it’s not true but because it’s so true that it cannot be easily swallowed. “We should all be feminists”! Chimamanda surely is not airing her view on feminism for the first time on this particulare moment as she has…
The long-awaited Americana is ready to be published on 11th April. From all indications, it will be a bestseller, as the author of The Purple Hibiscus took five years to coin this his newborn baby. It sounds sweet, as that will be his first book on America and his first about race. One of the features that he probably does not lack in his writings, whether the book has a Nigerian setup…
As the debate over according amnesty to the deadly Nigerian Islamist group, The Boko Haram continues to tear apart sections of Nigeria intellectuals, politicians, religious leaders and ethnic groups, a prominent Nigerian, whose franc-speaking and courage has been noted at the international level, Mgr Hassan Kukah, the Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese puts forward his thought provoking argument on why there is need to accord the so called unknown group amnesty. The…
A look into the long awaited request made by the Nigerian government to those who robbed her historical and valuable objects. Nigeria to the world: Give us our art back! by Heather Murdock British colonials once made off with thousands of artifacts. Now Nigeria wants them all back. BENIN CITY, Nigeria — In this city, statues adorn the streets and there’s an art museum in the town square. It is the heart of…
Nigeria is said to be the giant of Africa. This could be true depending on what one understands by the statement “The giant of Africa”. In terms of natural or human resources, no one doubts her richness in both areas, but are these enough for her to be the giant of Africa? There is also another way of seeing this so-called giant. In terms of negligence or corruption, for example, I am…
Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has a wonderful talk about “the danger of a single story” that you can listen to, online. When you’re handed the first Hausa-language (spoken in parts of Africa) novel translated into English, you can get a sense of the perilous burden of that description. In an interesting misrepresentation, the publishers seem to have chosen to promote this sense of exotic uniqueness, blurbing the book as “quite unlike…
One of those engaging and patriotic Nigerian youths that has vowed not to sit down and see our dear nation destroyed by “Vagabonds on power”, speaks out in her usual way. Read her and find out by yourself the calibre of woman she is. I admire her a lot! Courtesy: Nneka performs at the Gothe Zenthrem gardens in Kampala. PHOTO BY FAISAL KASIRYE Q&A: Nigerian singer Nneka calls to ‘Vagabonds in…
