Biodun Jeyifo

Cleansing the Augean stables, Nigeria circa 2016 CB (4): Higher education and a different kind of corruption, a different order of corruptibility

Cleansing the Augean stables, Nigeria circa 2016 CE (3): politics and governance in consumption without limits

Cleansing the Augean stables, Nigeria circa CE (2): the lawyerly institution

Cleansing the Augean stables, Nigeria, circa 2016 CE (1)

Post-truth’ and the anti-globalization of thr Right: reflections on language, bigotry and power

Trump and bitter memories of Abacha: rubbishing liberal democracy at home and abroad

A tribalism of the hunter-gatherer age in the American elections – what could this possibly mean

The cautious and incautious victory lap before the finish line: again, Nigerian echoes in the 2016 American elections

“I will accept the results of the elections only if I win” – Trumpian Nigerian echoes

We are not in a short recession Mr President; we are in a serial recession that is close to a depression

Apocalypse – Nigerian presidential elections 2015 and American presidential elections 2016

Has capitalism of the worst kind become permanent in Nigeria? – Resuming a forgotten debate

Compatriots, things could be worse; or things will get worse – three parables/riddles

Sacrifice is tough, ask the chicken, ask Francesco Schettino, ask Speaker Dogara, ask our leaders – and confront them with their reverse sacrifice of the people

The falling naira, the falling ruling party and the parable of the worm: a postscript

The fall in the value of the naira is like the fall in the standing of the APC, no be so?

Trump and racist xenophobia rejection of neoliberal globalization in the West – a hopeful portent?

There was a time before neoliberalism, will there be a time after neoliberalism

Is it the same thing to be against Brexit as to be against the breakup of Nigeria? Yes, but…

Not atheism but secularism working with ecumenism is the issue – interlocutors please take note! [For Tai-Solarin and Chike Obi, heroic secularist forerunners]

I went to church today and tremendously enjoyed the service, would you believe it

And why are we so blessed-the uneasy mix of grace and truth in friendship (For Femi Osofisan at 70)

The Buhari administration has issued its ‘minimum program’; we, the people, must now issue ours

When “Hear Word! (Naija Woman Talk True)” came to Harvard – finally