Every time elections beckon, one of the more dominant narratives is the need for experienced leaders. It’s one of the key themes in electionspeak. The idea...
It is a gift, it is a curse. It has made things easier but has that necessarily been a good thing? Journalism used to be a...
On the Sunday after Nigeria won her first World Cup game since 1998, my brother and I were quite cheesed off to be woken up at...
It was a year into the new millennium and my father had picked up the Guardian (As always). Unusually for me, I was able to take...
The idea of Idris Elba polarises. To women, he’s a sex symbol. Handsome, tall, bearded and blessed with a pleasing to the ear British accent. To...
I sent a link to one of my essays to a senior Nigerian and he sent me a DM on Twitter which said: ‘So what are...
A friend of mine confided in me a while back. She informed how she had been told by a guy that she had a strong feminist...
I believe in dreams in that I see them as a way of motivating myself to go the extra mile in order to bring them to...
“Hey boo! How was your day?” “Bleh! I had an awful day.” “Ahan! What happened?” “On the way to work, my tyre burst. It was on...
Not So Sweet Revenge When relationships end, there’s always that one party who is left to wonder why life has dealt them such a serious blow....
Oluremi Obasanjo’s ‘Bittersweet: My Life with Obasanjo’ is one of the essential African books. Not in the same breath as literary masterpieces like Achebe’s ‘Things Fall...
“A smart man is smarter and greater when he marries a smart woman” –Funso Adegbola Recently, my friend said “I don’t like all girls, these days....
Lance Armstrong polarizes opinion. Over the past year, he’s been touted as a drug cheat, a bully and a vengeful character. On the other hand, he...
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become...
“History shall be kind to me for I intend to write it” –Winston Churchill I interned at a publishing company in Lagos and during this period, I...
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