Sometime in 1995 there was a conference on African Philosophy at the SS Peter and Paul Seminary, Bodija, Ibadan. It was focused on History and Historiography. History is about Chaps…
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The title of this piece is not designed to mislead or confuse. It is the best way I can capture in a few words the many different thoughts, places and…
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Here we go again on zukerville! The serial cyborgs are at it again. Whoever is trying to use our human capital in literature to further sow the seeds of discord…
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The time is now for our politicians to be proactive about what direction our nation will be moving from now on. My experience with my friends and other Nigerians both…
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Wole Soyinka, that brave and brilliant Nigerian of unassailable integrity, wrote himself into immortality. In sequence of words upon brilliants words spanning reams upon veritable reams of paper, this Iroko…
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Wole Soyinka once described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a “nest of killers”. That was at the height of PDP’s power when former President Olusegun Obasanjo held sway and…
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The Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, is a living literary legend. He is revered all around the world for his literary greatness and singular accomplishment of being the only African…
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The respected and erudite Professor Wole Soyinka’s epistle in The Guardian on November 13th, 2016 gives credence to the monstrosity of the media and the warped minds that abound in…
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There are some strange developments and coincidences happening between Germany and Nigeria, particularly as it concerns Albert Einstein and Wole Soyinka on the one hand and Berlin and Ibadan on…
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Thirty-four years back, one Saturday morning, then an undergraduate of the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, a friend (Olatunbosun Oni) and I were walking down the pavement, when…
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WS, Your sundry hoary strands Stand as beacons To navigators cruising from all seafronts To the island of bliss, astuteness, scarred proficiencies and maneuvers that beat fulfillment without animosity, without…
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I was disturbed by a report in last Sunday’s edition of The Punch newspaper. It read, “Buhari orders military to crush new Niger Delta militant group”. It’s meet to quote…
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There seems to be some quiet in the South East after the national uproar that greeted the massacring of over 50 indigenes of Ukpabi Nimbo community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government…
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In 1992, Bill Clinton, then the Democratic Party candidate for the US presidency, popularized the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid.” A year earlier, then incumbent President George H. Bush—who was…
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As Muhammadu Buhari ran for the fourth—and decisive—time for the Nigerian Presidency, his handlers cast him as a man purged of the dictatorial tendencies and inflexible disposition that marked his…
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“There is not a truth existing which I fear or wish unknown to the whole world.” – Thomas Jefferson “When it comes to the truth, the real bias is thinking…