A State Sired By Racism
The American Police were the slave patrols of yore. They were the lynch squads of yore. They lynched the black bodies in the past; today the are lynching black bodies…
Emmanuel Franklyne Ogbunwezeh
Emmanuel Franklyne Ogbunwezeh contributes from Frankfurt, Germany.
And Racism became King
Those were the days. It was in the final days. And those days were pregnant. History has seen such days before. They were days before catastrophe made a landfall. They…
Biafra: The Voyage of Memory vs. Custodians of Stolen Legacy
When memory sails across history, to reclaim landscapes of her birth, or recover epistemic citadels hijacked by imperialisms of conquering narratives; custodians of stolen legacies, and other fences in crime,…
Chibok: There May never be Girls to be brought back
Commentary to mark one year of the kidnap of the Chibok girls It is one year today that over 300 girls were kidnapped from their school dormitories by members of…
Nigerian Politics and Why Neutrality is Untenable: J’Accuse Pius Adesami!
If not that Prof. Pius Adesamni is my Broda from another Mama, I would have cried havoc, and let loose my Koboko, on his ‘yansh’, for daring to accuse me…
Boko Haram: A Violent Symptom of a Rotten Embrace
Societies racing to hell usually make pit-stops at irrationality to re-tank their superstitions. They stop not only to caress their indiscretions, but also to refill their pathologies. On their way to oblivion, they loiter around the theatres of infamy. They celebrate feasts off their impunity. At those convocations, they erect funeral pyres to immolate their posterity…
Repeating the Mistakes that led to Biafra
One cannot successfully fight what happens to be the canvass of human perception. Prejudice in itself is not wrong or negative. It is neutral. But what is absolutely wrong is the arrogance of pejorative prejudice. This is where a particular strain of prejudice, arrogates itself the borrowed robes of absolute validity…
Libya and the Brutality of Nations
The theatre of global geopolitics has forever been an amoral jungle. It is a horrendous one. This is the arena, where men empowered by the force of their arms and the privileges of their station, take leave of their humanity in deference to their greedy ambitions…
Libya and the Brutality of Nations
The theatre of global geopolitics has forever been an amoral jungle. It is a horrendous one. This is the arena, where men empowered by the force of their arms and the privileges of their station, take leave of their humanity in deference to their greedy ambitions…
Why Abiola Must have Died in Vain
It seems that Nigerians as a people are in perpetual slavery to self-deception. We are so very allergic to reality. Truth for us is whatever consolidates our unexamined prejudices. We are so allergic to the tides of reason that any challenge to the primitive fatalisms, lazy illusions, or invincible ignorance scaffolding our neurotic presumptions, sees us rising with unemotional ruthlessness…