Nigeria Think!

  Ever since the controversial launch of Hubert Ogunde’s production, “Yoruba Ronu”, which was banned in the western region at the time (1964), Yorubas have continually engaged or yearned for reassessment and realignment, and so, “Yoruba Ronu” has become variously, an exhortation or an indictment of self; a voice that comes and goes, but cannot…

Gani The Porter

Follow @NewNigerian This picture puts a perspective on Nigeria that many books may fail to equal.  It describes the current state, while also revealing a previous reality that has been superimposed upon by a new anti-reality.  Let’s start with the white-ish house; rain washed and suffering from an invasion of moss.  In a previous life,…

Where Next After Iraq?

A Pax Americana Beginning Annum Domini 2003 At least that is what the Americans would like to have, anyway.  Having bulldozed Baghdad and liberated the oil-fields, the Yankees now straddle Iraqi society like an imperious Colossus.  Iraqi TV used to be dominated by images and eulogies to Mr Saddam, these days the “popular” fare is…