Photo credit: hr2 kultur In her work, Stephanie Comilang engages themes of labour, technology and postcolonial entanglement in the context of global mobility. Artdaily reports that she combined documentary footage, fictional elements and personal narratives. She describes her films as “science fiction documents”. In “Lumapit Sa Akin, Paraiso” (Come to Me, Paradise) (2017, 26 min),…
Eko o ni baje,O baje ti. Lagos is a state after my heart. Lagos could be expensive for the JJC, Johnny Just Come, as new comers to the state are called. The best way to identify a new comer to Lagos is to allow them get down from a moving molue. When this whistle blower…
That the government of Nigeria is insensitive to the people’s feelings is an obvious understatement. Daylight armed robbery and petty stealing are going on in Ogun and Lagos States as I’m typing this. Yet the authorities hardly have any response. By the way, the states are on lockdown because of COVID 19. Methinks locking people…
Mr Buhari’s speech could at the very best be described as being full of hot air! Personally, I see the sixty-paragraph address as a waste of precious time. It doesn’t have anything that’s substantially new. In the fourth paragraph, the president even says, ‘As your democratically elected leaders,…’ Must that fact be emphasized at these…
What are those things we ought to have done that we’re failing to do? What are those things we ought not to have done that have become kárí ilé, asọ oní súgà for us? Do we belong to political parties? How much do we pay as membership fees? These questions are fundamental because if we…
My treasured friends on this blue lane must have been wondering why I got down to the low of one stupid boy who’s claiming some money he never worked for. I did it deliberately for him to state his case so that the discerning will know whether he has a genuine case. According to him…
Photo credit: Arab News Domestic migrants in India, who often travel thousands of kilometres for work, are weighing up whether to leave New Delhi for good as energy resources choked by the Middle East war dwindle. The Daily Mail reports that black market prices of cooking gas cylinders have soared beyond what labourers living hand-to-mouth…
