Olu Ojedokun

Olu Ojedokun, Ph.D, is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and author of the unpublished 'Speaking Truth to Power: Albie Sachs and the work of South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission'

Speaking Truth to Power: Mr President and the Chaos called Nigeria

Mr President, my thoughts have recently reverted back to the question of your legacy as President and the fact that there are no invisible ones.  I am inclined to ask what story would you tell your grand children?

Speaking Truth to Power: The Nigerian Nightmare and ‘Zigilisation’

The whole scenario called Nigeria presents one with a nightmare, a long one without any discernable way forward.  Sometimes the ‘project’ Nigeria, apologies to Prof Dora Akunyili, is comparable to a long nightmare...

Future Challenges for ‘Minority’ Ethnic Churches

The minority ethnic churches by their very nature bring about challenges. One of them is the possibility of the second generation problem.  There could come a time when these churches cease to attract any of the second generation Africans...

Strategies for addressing the dichotomy between White and Black – Part 2

It is useful both from empirical and anecdotal evidence to examine the reality of Church life for the Christian migrants in many parts of UK today.  In the process examining the reason why the need is felt for their own separate churches in today’s Britain...

The British Church: Strategies for addressing the dichotomy between White and Black

This paper makes an attempt to explore solutions to some questions facing the British churches operating in a climate of different and diverse cultures?  It explores whether division into separate churches is a way forward to address the differences and diversities? 

Speaking Truth to Power:‘An Open Letter to Mr President

I belong to a generation of Nigerians drip fed on hope and promise, but are now fed up, frustrated and tired.  I belong to those who benefited from an exclusively government sponsored education but are now left bereft, directionless and confused...

Speaking Truth to Power: Men of God and National Awards

I am, and I must own up and come clean that I am part of the problem associated with the perceived Churches’ inadequacies in fulfilling its prophetic mandate in Nigeria...

Speaking Truth to Power: ‘Send Down Dollars’

Another instance of their being more to Lagos other than show is a man named Raji Babatunde Fashola SAN, the governor Lagos State.  While other governors concentrate on their skin tone and appearance he devotes his time to the appearance of Lagos and its infrastructure...

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