There is a new movement – that of the anti-activist activist. People who have made it their business to turn against those who have made it their business to criticise government or politicians.
Well, all of them presumably love Nigeria…
Humans endlessly search for significance in everyday occurrences, especially death, and for me I have chosen to find significance in the death of global icon Chinua Achebe just before the final week of this series.
It was Achebe who inspired…
I have a friend who works in the change maker spaces and he has approached his passion for country with a single-mindedness and aggression that can be compelling. Everyone says he wants to be a politician – that the reason…
I have taken to cracking a particular joke with my friends over the course of the past two years as I have paid close attention to the way that power and politics work in our society – that it is…
I have to confess; I never really understood the concept of round pegs in round holes as regards governance. Or to put it more directly, I had never understood it in relation to people who are competent or effective at…
There are very few people who read the news who haven’t heard about the Nigeria Police College in Ikeja, Lagos. Before January, this was just another victim of the institutional rot that defines public life in Nigeria. One documentary after,…
My orientation about government began to change in 2009. Before this time, I had always felt – sadly without any historical or evidentiary… perspective – that Nigerians can transform Nigeria, in spite of our government.
I came into awareness of
As we grow older and the responsibilities begin to pile up, we start to face the ‘real’ world and a lot of our idealistic ideas drops – we will hear more of some of the chatter you have been hearing…
A lot of Nigerians who want to try and change their country and who have a zeal to do so are being discouraged by the myriad of challenges that abound. There’s the school of thought that there’s so much to …
I began to worry last year when I sat down after the elections and asked myself – when young people say they want “change”, do we really know what we are talking about?
I have spoken about the futility of…
