Professor Wole Soyinka I have struggled for some time to write this letter, and I wish there were a better...

Picture credit: Cairo journal. Perhaps this is the most uncomfortable lesson of all: oppression does not automatically teach the oppressed...

Jihadis in the Sahel. Picture credit: AFP. Twenty-five years after 11 September, the smoke has cleared from lower Manhattan, but...

He smiled, extended his hand and clasped mine firmly. “My name is Kweku,” he said, with the quiet assurance of...

Credit: Obafemi Awolowo Foundation The discipline, strategic intelligence and capacity for long-term planning that made Awolowo such an effective development...

World celebrated country music icon, the late Dolly Parton. It was in late spring of 1964, just a day after...

Last year, I made a deliberate decision: I cancelled our cable television subscription. Our children are grown and have long...

Sub-Saharan Africa should stop assuming that geography automatically creates solidarity. Relationships between states are ultimately governed by interests. When they...

Former Nigerian military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd). General Gowon is now an elder statesman. He deserves the...

The University of Nigeria remains one of Africa’s great institutions. Its decline was neither inevitable nor irreversible... But restoring its...

Minister of works, Dave Umahi Senator Umahi, like every Nigerian citizen, is entitled to fairness, due process, and the presumption...

For many of us, Britain existed less as a country than as an aspiration. That is why my first visit...

A close friend recently returned to Nigeria for the first time after fifteen years in the United Kingdom. Like many...

Kenneth Okonkwo Perhaps therein lies the tragedy. Andy Okeke sought wealth without the patience that honest labour requires and paid...

Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State. Charles Soludo is neither the messiah his admirers once imagined nor the villain his...

Few situations test the integrity of human relationships more severely than the necessity of refusal. To deny a request from...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan If Jonathan allows himself to become a pawn in this fractured opposition chessboard, he risks squandering...

Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire founder of Facebook and the sixth richest man in the world, according to Forbes, is not...

If women continue ascending educationally and economically, while large segments of men stagnate or decline, the pool of men perceived...

My wife and I are hardly fixtures within Houston’s high society and vibrant social circles. By temperament, we gravitate toward...

Ugo Agbo As I watched my son step into the night, poised and self-possessed, moving toward a life I can...

The toll of war is not counted in victories, but in mothers who forget how to laugh, in children who...

In 1455, as Portuguese ships crept down the coast of West Africa in pursuit of gold, glory, and dominion during...

Few ideas in religious history, however, have exercised as much influence or provoked as much debate as the belief that...

Vivien Thomas The next generation of students sitting in anatomy classrooms should learn the full story, not as a footnote...