By Festus Adedayo On Thursday this week, it will be 32 years of that June 12 phenomenon. On July 9, 1998, the lifeless body of a...
By Festus Adedayo As Ngugi wa Thiong’o says in his Wizard of the Crow, (2007), ire is more corrosive than fire. Make no mistake about it:...
By Festus Adedayo What hunters see in the forest is enough to make children of men without balls blind. Ọláníyì Ọládèj̣ọ Yáwóọ̣ré had gone hunting one...
By Festus Adedayo In May, 2016, a young man got abducted by three men. They drugged him and gouged out his two eyes and testicles. According...
By Festus Adedayo A couple of months ago, history walked on its two legs into my feeble embrace. When it did, I never knew it was...
By Festus Adedayo Today, icon of Akure Kingdom in Ondo State, foremost Yoruba leader and one of the major twines holding together the Yoruba nation, Baba...
By Festus Adedayo In July, 2006, John Street, Emeritus Professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the United States’ University of...
By Festus Adedayo At his ancient ‘imperial’ home in Molete, Ibadan last Thursday, I wrote in the condolence register: “He was a man, like French philosopher,...
By Festus Adedayo Sorry, I digress. Gradually, the Nigerian presidency is putting finishing touches to its own sculpture of a village liar, Ìbídùn, it is busy...
By Festus Adedayo “Everything is my business. Everything. Anything I say is law…literally law.” Barbara Geddes, et al in their How dictatorship works (2018) quoted Malawian...