By Suyi Ayodele At the funeral service for late Chief Adekunle Ajasin on Saturday, November 15, 1997, this is what the late Primate of the Anglican...
By Lasisi Olagunju “We sit here stranded, though we’re all doin’ our best to deny it.” I do not know under what condition Bob Dylan wrote...
By Suyi Ayodele If I were President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, after the Thursday, October 26, 2023, affirmation of my election as the winner of the February...
By Lasisi Olagunju Before Abuja, there was Lagos as our Federal Capital. And this is where I would want to believe that there is something about...
Tunde Odesola I didn’t shoot the sheriff. I was only a member of a three-man gang that robbed a friend in Lagos in the mid-80s. Thank...
By Lasisi Olagunju Susanne Wenger was famous as Adunni Oloriṣa. The BBC in 2008 described her as “white priestess of ‘black magic.'” A Nigerian said she...
Tunde Odesola The tale of the scorpion is in its tail. Here’s the tale of Erelu Bede, a woman who lived in the time of Orunmila,...
By Suyi Ayodele The food you give to a slave is not to make him grow fat, but for him not to die (Oñje tí a...
By Lasisi Olagunju If history were a child, the Yoruba would insist on calling it an Abiku. History keeps climbing the chimney and, in Wole Soyinka’s...
Tunde Odesola My father, Pa Bisi Odesola, is a retired builder. He owned a little construction concern, Bisi Builders, which constructed a number of buildings in...