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By Robert Morrell• On Monday, 17 August, Bill Freund died in Durban. He was 76 years old. He was among the most eminent of South Africa’s historians and published prodigiously broadly in the... Read more
He does not belong to the first generation – the generation of Paul Acheme Anyebe, Morgan Ogbole and Joe Omakwu. These three were the star signifiers, the ones who had broken into the exclus... Read more
He doesn’t make the headlines yet but he is a good example of an indigenous expert with global competitiveness. We are referring to Mr. Omale Ben Amedu, the Chief Executive of MB Amedu &... Read more
What tendency will prevail in Yoruba politics in the aftermath of the death early this morning of elder statesman, Ayo Fasanmi? This angle to the death recommends itself given how age and de... Read more
From the vantage point of serving together in the Power Sharing committee of the Constitutional Conference during the Abacha regime in 1994, Engineer Muhammed Abba-Gana, former FCT Minister... Read more
The accounts are still very sketchy but it is confirmed that Mr. Uchenna Okpara, aka ‘General’ is dead. He died in Ibadan this afternoon but not of COVID-19. He was called ‘General’ even as... Read more
Alhaji Ismaila Isa Funtua’s death, obviously, came without notice and different, contradictory accounts are emerging. In the days ahead, more details about him would fill the social me... Read more
A racial storm in British popular culture space is a big issue because it is magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Ebony, Cosmopolitan or Readers Digest which serve the geopolitical interest... Read more
Prof Zachary Gundu, Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of Benue State University, (BENSU) who went down last week with Covid-19 infection among many top professors and top... Read more
For someone who had said that Africa was “in search of a new historical mode of politics” but who subsequently ended up as a guerrilla fighter, Prof Ernest Wamba Dia Wamba’s death now cannot... Read more
