Essays

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

A Stunted Polity

Saluting Bene Madunagu at 70

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

The UN Verdict on the Northeast

Dividends of Democracy as a Misnomer

Time For Synergy in Niger Delta

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

The Virus of Hate Speech

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

Osinbajo in the Niger Delta

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

The Northeast in 2017

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

History Will Absolve Castro