Position Papers

Achebe damningly portrays Okonkwo as a man incapable of thought, a man who reposes too much faith in his physical prowess but puts no store by wisdom. Yet, there are numerous opportunities when the community forces Okonkwo to reckon with the fact that they – to say nothing of their ancestors and gods – are, in the end, more powerful than he...

Of what use is Internet access in a village without water? What use is half a gigabyte of RAM when the people need food? How will digital technology be available to all when the national provider of energy source is an epileptic government agency?

A recent social intellectual gathering in Lagos somewhat illustrated how some prominent progressive-minded Nigerians viewed the viability of a revolution as the only way of re-launching our hopes and dreams as a nation...

In today's Nigeria ethnicity is either at the core or at the ring of our problems; or at the least, ethnicity straddles it. At the core of corruption is ethnicity. At the core of nearly all the military coups we have endured was ethnicity...

Mr. Obama’s choice of Ghana as his only stop in his maiden trip to sub-Saharan Africa since assuming the American presidency has touched off a row in the region...

Israelis and Arabs cannot share the fireside for now. US impartiality and long-time support for Israel, which has remained the corner-stone of American diplomacy in the last fifty years, lingers as an impediment to true negotiations...

A friend on Facebook freshly asked that as I profess so much that ‘love’ should be shown to all equally, whether I would give a homosexual the same quantity of reverence, kindheartedness and communal insertion that I would a hetero in Nigeria...

The clandestine and often veiled reference to the politics of a second term beyond 2015, involving the interest and the re-election of the incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan, which have often been dismissed as a distraction by the President and his aides is characteristically breaking out in the open.  Will the President contest a second term in 2015?

"The reason why our people keep having these fantasies about America is because the American government spends billions of dollars to project their country as the ultimate paradise on earth. But when you get here, you discover that what you've been seeing on your TV back home is not the real America..."
- Olusesan Ekisola