Ejiro Osilama

Ejiro Osilama has a BS degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Suffolk University in Boston. She is currently working on a compilation of works by the everyday African Female, tentatively titled: "African Me: Africa by it's women."

Of Intelligence and Faith

Christians have chosen to be blind to the many varying proof and evidence that contradict pretty much everything that the bible claims...

Don’t Insult The Crocodile

I always thought that the whole talking in proverbs thing was something that only old people, but I was recently presented with an opportunity to use one...

My Black History

It is Black History Month. I do not in anyway wish to diminish African-American black history, but I believe that somewhere in the whole mess of history, African history has somehow gotten lost…

You are African?

“You are African? Cool, do you speak Swahili?” 

“You are from Nigeria? Waoh. I know this guy from Nigeria too. He just got arrested.”
“You are from Africa? So you speak another language right? Like not English or French or like a real language though. Yeah? Cool. Say something.”

Either Here or There: Coming to America…

In America, I would always be the African girl who sounds different, looks different and just could never quite blend in. In Nigeria, I would become the American girl who could not speak pidgin and could not make ukodo, yet who insisted that she was Nigerian...

Abstinance Vs. Protection in Nigeria

Are we as a nation still naïve enough to believe that our teenagers and even adults will abstain from sex because their teachers tell them to, or because of a few ads on television?

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­Missed moments and the search for nationhood

A critical tactical blunder in Nigeria’s chequered political history...

An Only Child Named Friday

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The Yoruba ‘Omoluabi’ Ethos And Nigeria’s Leadership

The Yoruba people in the Southwest of Nigeria are...

Southwest and the power of early preparation

The Southwest, although it now laudably has a Development...

El-Rufai’s Detention: Justice, Political Vendetta Or A Test Of Nigeria’s Rule Of Law?

The continuing legal battle involving former Kaduna State Governor,...