Two Doors Down: Buhari’s Hell and The Crimes of Nigerian Intellectuals The 1985 murder of 26-year old Bernard Ogedengbe by Buhari haunts me. It’s as if I let him down by failing to convince Nigerians that Buhari’s evil and should not be rewarded with the highest office of the land…

Art in the age of anxieties (Published April 2020) What is the role of the artist in the age of the Corona virus? What does the artist see, feel, hear, taste in the new sea of anxieties? Who is an “artist?” Why does he matter? Does trauma enforce creativity? So…

On ASUU, the Federal Government, Nigeria and Naijanet Oh Beautiful People, I was going through my Naijanet archives when I stumbled upon a report I gave to the list-serve upon my return from visiting Nigeria in June 1996 twenty four years ago. That year, Nigeria was in a bad place…

Writers as Goebbels: Nigerian literature as a tool of oppression I am angry. Nigeria is eating her young. Again. This is not the first time. Nigeria has been feasting on the blood of the poor for decades. For many years, I was a lone noisemaker crying in the wilderness. You…

#EndSARS: On that open letter from African writers African writers have written an open letter to the world, I guess, on #Endsars which could be reduced to a short tweet: “Because the dead cannot cry out for justice, it is our duty, as the living and as writers and humans…

On The Cadwaladr Quests: ‪Tangled Times by S. L. Ager The advent of social media and digital content on the Internet has had the perhaps unintended consequence of providing intense competition for the book as a medium of entertainment and education. …

An ordeal: Getting a new bank account at GTB In December 2019, based on a survey of banks folks preferred to use online, my wife and I settled on Guaranteed Trust Bank (@gtbank). They came highly recommended and we went to a branch in Ipaja with high hopes for a…

Tweets at dawn… Who wants my brief bag? America. Most mornings, I grab my brief bag and go to work. It’s always the same routine. Roll out of bed, take a shower, dress up, grab coffee, a banana, my brief bag and show up at work by 8:30 am. What’s…

Fellow Nigerians, It is easy to make sense of the Seun Onigbende fiasco. The intellectual and ruling elite are fighting over the remains of Nigeria. Simple. Forget all their woke poems, fiction and pretend noises. We really don’t know what happened to Seun, he has resigned from a job that…