Tunde Odesola Jonathan Love and Taylor Steele are Americans. They are also my buddies at work. Jonathan is black; Taylor is white. The three of us...
Tunde Odesola Situated in a dark groove is a drum never to be beaten. Thin as a strand of hair, the delicate drum transmits sound waves....
Tunde Odesola Bewildered by the riddle life was unravelling, King Sunny Ade, in 1974, lifted his voice in a plaintive cry, “È sú biri-biri kè bó...
Tunde Odesola With three horizontal lines on each side of his mulatto cheeks complementing the three vertical lines on his forehead, the abaja tribal marks beautifying...
Tunde Odesola After about 500 years of imperial dominance—extending into present-day Republic of Benin and Togo, and reaching the Sahelian fringes of Nupe, Borgu, and parts...
By Tunde Odesola I’ll beat about the bush because a hunter beats about the bush for reasons, which include awakening the bush, calling attention to his...
Tunde Odesola Wracked by a head-splitting fever and a head-aching red eye, this article may not see the light of day. But if it’s ever published,...
Tunde Odesola Nose – off-centre; mouth – misshapen; eyes – squinted; ears – rabbity; every Nigerian is familiar with this green face without a grin. On...
Tunde Odesola Ikú Bàbá Yèyé o! I hail thee, ‘omo ikú tí ikú ò gbódò pa’ – the child of death, whom death must not kill;...
Tunde Odesola Abimbola’s eyes had seen 999 battles; so, one more battle would not make him go blind. Having survived a milestone of battles, it was...