The Jide TaiwoA Letter To My Mother(I wrote this eulogy for my mother’s funeral last year. But it didn’t hold, because she did not die. She’s still here. And she turns 70…Oct 9, 2023Oct 9, 2023
The Jide TaiwoObesere: The Memes, The Man, The LegendIn the last eight weeks or so, you could not have missed the Obesere memes: video clips of several of his songs have opened him up to a…Mar 5, 2020Mar 5, 2020
The Jide TaiwoThe RunawayI successfully dodged the last hit of the ‘omorogun’. I’d endured almost an hour of sporadic swats of the belt and NEPA wire. In the last…Jun 9, 20181Jun 9, 20181
The Jide TaiwoYes Chude; We Are The Turning Point GenerationYesterday 6th December 2015 was the 10th edition of the annual The Future Awards. Since 2006, the platform has been the highlight of the…Dec 7, 2015Dec 7, 2015
The Jide TaiwoUNITED IN GRIEF, FEAR AND A COMMON FATE“I wrote this few days after nearly three hundred students were kidnapped from Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria…Nov 18, 2015Nov 18, 2015
The Jide TaiwoYouth Engagement and Participation: The Game Changer in the 2015 ElectionsNigeria is a country of many contradictions and paradoxes: we import food while over half of our land mass is arable ground for food…Apr 1, 20151Apr 1, 20151
The Jide TaiwoJay Z attains the Holy GrailI’m a multi-millionaire. So how is it that I’m still the hardest nigga here- Jay Z. Death of Autotune’Mar 31, 2015Mar 31, 2015
The Jide TaiwoAbout ten years ago, I discovered the art of blogging. I wrote a few blogs but then it became…Fast forward to 2015, blogging is something every Nigerian with internet access attempts to do; because they’ve seen the success of Linda…Feb 27, 20152Feb 27, 20152