Category: Humanities

Northern NBA, Buhari’s Water Bill as Birds of Bigotry Home to Roost

Northern NBA, Buhari’s water bill as birds of bigotry home to roost By: Festus Adedayo You may not understand what inimitable Fela Anikulapo’s early days of Koola Lobitos’ ballistics-sounding song, with the refrain, Alujanjan kijan, was about until you hear...

/ August 30, 2020

Publishing: Advantage(s) of E-book over a Print Copy

Publishing: Advantage(s) of E-book over a Print Copy By: Adachukwu Onwudiwe I get quite a number of DMs from budding authors who want to know the advantage of publishing an e-book over the usual hard/softback; how e-books are marketed and...

/ August 28, 2020

Deaths in My Neighborhood

Deaths in My Neighborhood By: Deji Yesufu A little over a decade ago, while living as a single man in a neighborhood here in Ibadan, I was woken up by a loud bang on my door. It was a Saturday...

/ August 26, 2020

Mali: Endangering Africa’s Democracies

Mali: Endangering Africa’s Democracies By: Deji Yesufu Some days ago news filtered in that the government of the nation of Mali had been ousted by renegade soldiers. As we scrambled around for information to authenticate the situation on ground in...

/ August 24, 2020

Tai Solarin, Mailafia, Lai Mohammed at a Reverie with George Orwell

Tai Solarin, Mailafia, Lai Mohammed at a reverie with George Orwell By: Festus Adedayo Any student of autocratic rule will tell you that free speech is always the first casualty of a budding despotism. So, watching the viral video of...

/ August 16, 2020

Death: Learning to Say the D Word

Death: Learning to Say the D Word By: Peju Simoyan (MD, MPH) In a recent essay published in Pulse, Dr. Charlotte Grinberg reflected on some of her experiences as a medical intern related to how doctors tend to communicate about...

/ August 15, 2020

Why the Colour of #RevolutionNow was not Arab Spring-red

Why the Colour of #RevolutionNow was not Arab Spring-red By: Festus Adedayo They all happened almost simultaneously, as if in a choreography. On February 9, 2011, a huge crowd of protesters had gathered at the Tahir Square in Cairo, Egypt....

/ August 10, 2020

Thank You Christ Apostolic Church

Thank You Christ Apostolic Church By: Deji Yesufu Somebody said to me once that preaching is only about 10% of what a pastor does. I am learning that lesson very quickly. One of the sisters in the gathering that we...

/ August 6, 2020

Explosions in Beirut, Lebanon (Video)

Explosions in Beirut, Lebanon Short videos of explosions rocking Beirut "The explosion is thought to have been caused by 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored for six years without safety measures at the port, according to Lebanese President Michel Aoun."...

/ August 5, 2020

Banditry, Fulani Herdsmen Attack: Blood on the Nigerian Landscape

Banditry, Fulani Herdsmen Attack: Blood on the Nigerian Landscape By: Deji Yesufu Modupe Oyetoso owns a farm of about a hundred hectares in Lanlate town in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State. Modupe is a young Nigerian woman trying to...

/ July 31, 2020