A sentiment that I have found is shared amongst many Nigerians is the idea that we spend too much time talking about colonisation and that we overemphasise its effects...
Africa today conjures negative images of strife, economic backwardness, low life expectancy, illiteracy etc. More recently, the wave of ethnic conflicts across the continent, but mostly within states has...
“Europe created the concept of savageness and barbarism as antithesis to its modernity and civilisation. Henceforth, Europe was to represent the modern model and the rest was to represent...
THE STATE OF AFRICA: ARE WE TO BLAME? There has always been difficulty when it comes to explaining the current state of many African countries that are struggling to...
“All are our crops; but we get from others To middleman those are not from others. Yet they show them our jam-packed granary. Faces of our decrepit doctors, Inspiration...
In the book, ‘Decolonising the Mind’, N wu Thiong’o takes a different approach in discussing the post-colonial state, by noting that many African writers fail to see the colonial...
Our generation is too scared to speak on love, to confront it and most importantly, to choose it. With an earth shattering heartbreak in my late teens, and the...
“But the dream of exodus still lives in those of us not satisfied with the world as we know it.” There comes an age when society dictates to you,...