People in Action
Beauty, as the cliché goes, is in the eye of the beholder. There is no debate about that but from the same philosophical root comes the idea that meaning is what the consensus says it is. An... Read more
Historian and Vice Chancellor at United States International University – Africa, Prof Paul Tiyambe Zeleza explains why colleagues, friends and Africanists continue to pour out their hearts... Read more
As a one-time Executive Secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, (CODESRIA), the Malawi born Professor Thandika Mkandawire who passed on March 27th... Read more
Intrusive details from Facebook throws it at everyone that he is 70 years old today. That is Dr. Yusuf Bangura, the Sierra Leone born political economist who is as well known in Nigeria as i... Read more
No matter how many times and within whichever set of respondents, his name would be among the top three African musicians who stand out in terms of global impact. The two of them would be Hu... Read more
The death at 10 pm last Thursday of Dr Emmanuel Udah Olowu at the National Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria is no news anymore. All those who should hear the death of the almost 65 year old academ... Read more
From Port Harcourt comes Ekaete George, author of the poetry collection titled Saints and Scoundrels, with this piece on Odia Ofeimun who has been in this news for clocking 70 this week By E... Read more
He might have worked somewhere else before but it was at The Nation he put a stamp on journalism by, amongst others, effectively combining salesmanship, advertising, editorial, (He was State... Read more
Two speakers did not agree with Prof Bayo Olukoshi. They were Prof Ebere Onwudiwe and Dr. Kayode Fayemi, governor of Ekiti State. Onwudiwe argues that thematising the event in terms of the f... Read more
The open as well as muted case for break–up of Nigeria as an alternative to existing Nigeria has suffered a heavy blow from easily the largest gathering of radical activists in Nigeria in re... Read more
