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A Review of El Anatsui: The Man, the Myth, the Legend at 80 and Counting (2026)
By Chris Uchenna Agbedo, PhD, fnias, mnal.
Preamble
“Beyond Bottle Caps...
For decades, the political narrative across Africa has been dominated by a single, unyielding aspiration: the adoption of Western-style democracy. It is a desirable...
Every tyrant is a megalomaniac. Tyranny is nothing but a political manifestation of psychosis. That is a fact that remains indisputable. I have never known a tyrant, stripped of the paraphernalia of power clothing his madness, who has not acquitted himself as a grovelling coward...
The vision of transforming Nigeria's economy by 2020 must be strategically framed, rooted in sound macroeconomic fundamentals and elucidated legal framework to accomplish the targeted goal...
We cannot be content at home and abroad, limiting ourselves to church planting and having mega conferences without a corresponding transformation of the United Kingdom and the Nigerian society. These activities must demonstrate their relevance by affecting the people around us...
It is important to reproduce here that the great historian, Prof J F Ade Ajayi, debunked the theory and the belief that the British bombarded Lagos because it was a notorious “slave depot” in 1851 or annexed it in 1861 because “the permanent occupation of this important point in the Bight of Benin is indispensable to the complete suppression of the slave trade..."
It is important to reproduce here that the great historian, Prof J F Ade Ajayi, debunked the theory and the belief that the British bombarded Lagos because it was a notorious “slave depot” in 1851 or annexed it in 1861 because “the permanent occupation of this important point in the Bight of Benin is indispensable to the complete suppression of the slave trade..."
It is important to reproduce here that the great historian, Prof J F Ade Ajayi, debunked the theory and the belief that the British bombarded Lagos because it was a notorious “slave depot” in 1851 or annexed it in 1861 because “the permanent occupation of this important point in the Bight of Benin is indispensable to the complete suppression of the slave trade..."
Family is the primary social invention that shapes us into human beings. Families are molded by society into functional forms and they contribute greatly to the success of the society to which they belong to...
Family is the primary social invention that shapes us into human beings. Families are molded by society into functional forms and they contribute greatly to the success of the society to which they belong to...
The eyes with which I see the world, which makes me approachable or amiable or dignified or capable is not Nigerian. I get that from my vicinity. From that view, we can be better friends than we currently are...
I see undeserving idiots, mediocre, charlatans and thieves being lauded and acclaimed everyday by the government, the society, religious segments and even the academics with the conferment of dubious honours, awards and accolades, chieftaincy and religious titles and I say to myself, “Are we a degenerate and depraved people who have unfortunately become used to suffering and battering from the hands of an unworthy few?”
There are still honorable and truthful Nigerians whose inner configurations are knitted with truth and their hearts are ruled by a sense of justice and fairness...
It is time to view Nigeria as it really is. Far from demonstrating any robust gains from our democracy, we have, on the contrary, reaped broken hope, stalled vision, economic disarray, empty rhetoric and comatose nation building projects...
I remember one of the early conversations I had with Pastor Bimbo when I had questioned the existence of Heaven and Hell. I recall saying to her that I would hate to die only to discover that there is no Heaven as I may have missed out on the “good” life in my quest to make it to Heaven...
When good governance translate into the measurement of outcomes and effects of public policy execution, as it should be, the government of this nation, led by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, performed below optimal efficiency...
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