By Israel Adebiyi There is an old Northern Nigerian folklore titled “Ali and the Angel: Tea Without Sugar.” In this tale, a man named Ali, sensing...
By Suyi Ayodele I am naturally hemophobic; I run from blood. But I had to encourage myself to watch the videos of the killings in Yelwata...
By Lasisi Olagunju “There is a kind of price for life,” says Charles A. Curran, and that price, he says, “moves in the direction of death.”...
Tunde Odesola To the Westerner, land is one of the four factors of production, riding in the same vehicle with labour, capital and entrepreneurship. In the...
By Israel Adebiyi Once upon a time in the thickest part of the forest, a great meeting of animals was convened. The air was tense, filled...
By Suyi Ayodele This is a simple way to kill a man that is too powerful for the entire community to deal with. Simply splatter his...
By Lasisi Olagunju “When lions battle, jackals flee.” Isaac Newton wrote that to his bitter rival, Gottfried Leibniz. It was a barbed remark on their feud...
By Lasisi Olagunju One of the first jokes I picked when I moved to Ibadan 30 years ago is that failure of patronage is the only...
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:...