I’ll start this essay with the fact that I always refuse to praise any democratic government for what it’s using taxpayers’ money to do, if it actually does it. But then, there’s always an exception to any rule. The Yoruba say that, if we say our father’s masquerade will dance, and they don’t, nobody can arrest us….

Yeah, if people will choose to remember there will always be a tomorrow, our world might be a bed of roses. But then, there’s no gainsaying the fact that man is the most gifted of all animals. However, he conveniently chooses to forget the gifts when it suits him. There was once a man who…

Hell is surely beckoning. And, to ease the journey of people who have been condemned, a state in South Western Nigeria is bent on constructing an airport. The airport could have been described as an elephant project but people going to hell are already patronizing it, even while at its teething stage. Why not an…

About one of the first things I grew up to know in the Yoruba culture is the egungun cult. Near our home at Itire, there used to live a family – an extended family – if you like, who lived a true Yoruba lifestyle though tinted with some Islamic practices. Islamic practices because they normally…

Photo credit: commonwealth A nation is concluding its national elections today. The activities in the country can’t but remind me of Nigerian elections. Even before a particular election ends, career politicians are already planning for the next elections. In the elections that are being concluded in Nigeria, meanwhile, a lot of resources would have been…

by Abiodun Onabanjo-Onatola I.Let me take you through into meand now, I want to make you a diver without ocean and if your heart still beats; humane, it’s through your sojourn in me that I will have my mind made. The Flag, green-white-green;lush savanna of abundance and citizens toiled for numberless hours; on farmlands without…