Wale Adebanwi

Wale Adebanwi, Tribune’s editor-at-large, is currently in the UK (on leave from the University of Ibadan) as a Bill and Melinda Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge. He is a journalist of high repute and credibility. He is Tribune’s editor-at-large.
Nigeria Matters

A Congolese Proverb

Wale Adebanwi -
If we examine some aspects of specific African cultures in a rigorous manner, we can find explanations for the most sober and even the most trivial events in contemporary society...
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Some June 12, For Sure!

Wale Adebanwi -
June 12, 1993 was that almost impossible day in the horizon of a country that had been written off as a colonially-induced tragedy of the worst kind; a date that happened, as they say in football, against the run of play...
Interviews & Profiles

The Title Of My Book Is The Opposite Of Things Fall Apart

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"Our country, like many others, has a long history of emotional violence and literature exposes this, because unlike the history books and the journals, literature chronicles emotions - Sefi Atta"
Interviews & Profiles

The Title Of My Book Is The Opposite Of Things Fall Apart

Wale Adebanwi -
"Our country, like many others, has a long history of emotional violence and literature exposes this, because unlike the history books and the journals, literature chronicles emotions - Sefi Atta"
Life Abroad

Endgame

Wale Adebanwi -
Home, where is home? Look, now England is home. I will NEVER go back to that hopeless country and be ruled by idiots. Never! Don’t you see the point? Don’t you see the kind of people running that country and the beasts who are getting ready to run it again, after running it aground...

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