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Bayo Olupohunda

Bayo Olupohunda

Bayo Olupohunda is an educator, writer and independent journalist whose writing interests span the arts, culture, education, social issues and development politics. He is a contributing writer for the influential Nigerian newspaper, The Guardian. He was also recently a Columnist for 234Next Newspaper in Nigeria.   His articles have been published in Major Nigerian and foreign media. Bayo has also worked in education advocacy as the Project Coordinator in Education for Goethe Institut Lagos. He currently runs an education advocacy organization and teaches Literature and Creative Writing in an international school. 

  • Jakande Estates: Killing a Legacy

    by Bayo Olupohunda August 13, 2009
    by Bayo Olupohunda

    No government past and present has surpassed the administration of LKJ in the provision of the mass housing that has accommodated Nigerians from different parts of the country. However, the …

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  • Music, Fun and Straight Talk at Nigeria’s Hip Hop Conference

    by Bayo Olupohunda July 29, 2009
    by Bayo Olupohunda

    The evening of Sunday 26th July 2009 witnessed serious, soul searching and no-holds-barred straight talk about the hip hop genre of Nigeria’s music industry. The first and the much hyped …

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  • Hip Hop Music: Art or Obscenity?

    by Bayo Olupohunda July 14, 2009
    by Bayo Olupohunda

    Now the music scene is a complete bedlam and like all situations in our country, it has spun out of control. Bum shaking, women bashing, the F-word, explicit and sexually …

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  • The Futility of Re-branding Nigeria

    by Bayo Olupohunda May 27, 2009
    by Bayo Olupohunda

    The Minister of Information and National Orientation Professor Dora Akunyuli would by now have painfully realized that the re-branding Nigeria project which she kicked off with an impressive ceremony in …

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  • 700 Days in Office: “Wetin Gov. Fashola Dey Do Self?”

    by Bayo Olupohunda April 30, 2009
    by Bayo Olupohunda

    Majority of the people do not see government property as theirs. Otherwise why will people willfully damage public property so callously? They do not even know that these are procured …

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  • Global Economic Crisis: Impact on the Education Sector

    by Bayo Olupohunda April 8, 2009
    by Bayo Olupohunda

    Four interrelated global crises are mutually reinforcing each other: climate change, the energy crisis, the food crisis and the financial and economic crisis. But of these, the consequence of the …

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  • “Loving Lagos” In Berlin…Interview with Arne Schneider

    by Bayo Olupohunda September 30, 2008
    by Bayo Olupohunda

    The typical stereotype reputation of Lagos as a complex, hellish city where life is short and brutish got a positive boost recently in far away Berlin, Germany…

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  • Eye sore on Lekki-Epe Expressway

    by Bayo Olupohunda September 30, 2008
    by Bayo Olupohunda

    Driving on the entire stretch of the Lekki-Epe Expressway at night is a nightmare because the street lamps are not functional. And when it rains the drainages overflow, houses are …

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  • Gerd Meuer: Encounter with the Oyinbo Pepper

    by Bayo Olupohunda September 5, 2008
    by Bayo Olupohunda

    The African Oyinbo who has transcended the length and breath of the Africa continent is in town to present his book written about his long time equally larger-than- life friend, …

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  • PDP Domination: Blame the Opposition

    by Bayo Olupohunda September 2, 2008
    by Bayo Olupohunda

    Some of the opposition leaders should be blamed for contributing to the death of viable and sustainable opposition politics in the country since the advent of this democratic journey nine …

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  • How PDP Governors are Under-Developing the South-West

    by Bayo Olupohunda August 26, 2008
    by Bayo Olupohunda

    The giant strides in economic, education, industrial and infrastructural development of the South West witnessed during the First Republic was unprecedented. These gains are being threatened under the present set …

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  • Making Lagos Work

    by Bayo Olupohunda August 21, 2008
    by Bayo Olupohunda

    There is no doubt that development and the needed leadership that should have transformed Lagos into a functional city comparable to some of the best cities in the world took …

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  • Power Sharing: Threat to Democracy in Africa

    by Bayo Olupohunda August 14, 2008
    by Bayo Olupohunda

    It appears ‘power sharing’ rather than respect for electoral laws is gaining currency in Africa. Vanquished leaders have found a new strategy to perpetuate their leadership through fraudulent means…

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  • Culture Shock In Germany

    by Bayo Olupohunda March 14, 2008
    by Bayo Olupohunda

    Living outside one’s country certainly comes with its pains of personal struggles and ups and downs. It can alter one’s lifestyle in so many ways…

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  • The Guardian: A Day in the Life of the Flagship

    by Bayo Olupohunda October 18, 2007
    by Bayo Olupohunda

    ‘Oga, good afternoon, what is happening, why is everybody sad?’ I queried. He looked at me and I could at once see that he thought I was dumb for not. …

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  • Nigeria’s Sun Newspaper And Gutter Journalism

    by Bayo Olupohunda October 16, 2007
    by Bayo Olupohunda

    Nigeria journalism is fast becoming a cash and carry venture with cash and carry reporters, paid columnists and Ghana-Must-Go editors…

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