Violence in Mandelaland: Why?
‘Mandelaland’, the land of Nelson Mandela, a Xhosa, is the Republic of South Africa. Mandeland is very far from being Mandela-like in any conception whatsoever....
The Near Death Experience of a Petite Man
The Near Death Experience of a Petite Man ITomos was a petite man in his 40s and could easily pass for a young teenager sometimes....
Strange Diet Combo – Stella and Bread
Strange Diet Combo – Stella and Bread In everyday Nigerian parlance, the word “combination”, regarding food, connotes meals that comprise unlikely combinations of food items....
A Clueless Precedent By Nnimmo Bassey
When friends meet after a long while the questions that roll off after the handshakes, and maybe hugs, are often the standard “how have you...
Nigeria: Globalisation Democracy and the Possibility of a Coup d’etat
The United State of America is the chief exporter of “globalisation democracy” that has seen nations around the globe both encouraged and bullied into taking...
Postponement of Elections and Chinua Achebe’s Spirit
Chinua Achebe was ostracised by the Western academy for his truthful but hard to swallow comments on two European intellectual sacred cows, Joseph Conrad and...
The Owners of Nigeria Technostructure (ONT)
In Nigeria there exists a non-market non-governmental extortionist technostructure that is nameless but for the purpose of convenience we shall call it the ONT (i.e....