Biodun Jeyifo

Restructuring is not the same as secession, it is the continuationof bourgeois-consumption sharing of the ‘national cake’ and the kind of ‘unity’ it has hitherto normalized

Counterintuitive and inconvenient facts and challenges for IPOB – and for all of us

A few counterintuitive and inconvenient facts and challenges for IPOB – and all of us!

Obamacare versus Trumpcare, health care and the wealth and poverty of nations

Where one thing stands another thing will stand beside it: life expectancy and the HDI

“We who are about to die salute you” – some thoughts from the departure lounge of life [For the departed and living members of the University of Ibadan Class of 1967]

Egbon, teacher and mentor, go peacefully into the night, for Abiola Irele (1936-2017)

Trump and the hypocrisy and mendacity of the Republican Party: some lessons for all of us

The party athwart the movement: why socialist political parties perform so woefully in elections in postcolonial Nigeria

Why I have never voted and why I am not a religionist

How was your flight, sah? -extortionate affability at the border – and the hinterland!

2017/04/30 Against the specter of impeachment, Trump reminds America, capitalism and all of us unpleasant truths about ourselves

A Christian and Peoples’s Memo to the Chairman: for Yemi Ogunbiyi at 70

In defence – and clarification – of comparing Nigeria with the United States

Modern African poetry and the stranglehold of versification: for Niyi Osundare at 70

A book I would love to write in the near future, inshallah

The president’s illness: combining the existential and social dimensions

Buhari and the Senate on SGF Babachir D. Lawal. between the devil and the deep blue sea

Buhari pleads in the name of God; his Defence Minister talk of remote and immediate causes

Selfless in a strong moral personhood: for Comrade Dipo Fasina, aka “Jingo”, @ 70

Less can be more, less can be generative, a counter-memory from nature, mythology, science, technology and art

Leave it at home, compatriot, leave it at home

Cleansing the Augean stables, Nigeria, circa 2016 CE (6) conclusion: epic corruption and Buhari’s Nigeria- please think counterintuitively!

Cleansing the Augean stables, Nigeria, circa 2016 CE (5): Religion and the occult economy. religiousity working in tandem with epic corruption