Traditional rulers used to hold all the aces in Africa, until their empires got defeated by other empires with much better means of coercion. But then, that was before the Europeans went into Africa. Indeed, the game changed with the advent of the Europeans who came with mirrors and guns. They even showed ordinary Africans…

Many of us are so cowardly that we’re afraid of our own shadows! Nothing makes me remember this more than the banker and philanthropist who was interred with his wife and son yesterday after having a fatal accident in the US, After his death, even within a short period, a lot of negative water has…

A long time ago, when the eyes were still on the knees. There was a woman who was then barren. The woman’s name was Olurombi. Meanwhile, childless women had been going to the Iroko tree to plead for children. When they went, they would pledge that if the Iroko gave them children they would offer…

I had known Ebute Meta since I started having a sense of my existence. In fact, I believe my mom had been taking me there since infancy. When I came into an awareness of my being, I was carried away by the well laid out streets, the street lamps, the clean gutters, the waste disposal…

When I was a kid, I can still remember situations when for one reason or the other, I refused to eat. It normally happened when I was annoyed. Whenever that happened, my mother wouldn’t utter any word. She would go have her own meal and for what I then thought was an overkill, she would…