Because no matter where we are, we always find our way back to each other. There’s a smell in the air around this time of year part fried stew, part anticipation.WhatsApp groups start reviving like old spirits.Somebody suddenly remembers to ask, “Are you coming home this December?”And even if you’re not, your body starts acting…
Who truly owns the Museum of West African Art now standing where Benin’s Central Hospital once breathed life into generations.? What began as EMOWAA — the Edo Museum of West African Art — presented as a public-spirited cultural renaissance for a historic kingdom, has quietly, almost surgically, transformed into MOWAA, a private trust-controlled institution bearing…
Because for many of us, rest has always felt like rebellion. Let’s be honest: Nigerians don’t rest.We only recover. Even our vacations look suspiciously like work.You’ll see someone on “holiday” still replying emails with “sent from my iPhone” energy.Aunties will visit family abroad and spend two weeks cooking for people who told them to come…
And somehow, we’re still chasing what we can’t even name. Every November, it starts the same way. Someone will post, “Can you believe it’s almost Christmas?”Someone else will reply, “Where did the year go?”And just like that, a familiar Nigerian panic starts to hum through our collective bloodstream. Because once October ends, Nigerians home or…
In all the creative possibilities that Screen writers have tried to put together concerning the inviolable nature of the White House, none has come close to imagining that an actual bulldozer would sink its teeth deep into that structure that is most admired around the world. This is literally—- ‘White House Down.’ What we are…
But we’ve been writing it all the same in pepper soup, praise names, and permanent resilience. October in the UK is Black History Month.Yes October, not February.That’s when the country pauses at least on paper to honour the legacy, pain, brilliance, and presence of Black people in Britain. There are speeches, school assemblies, banners with…
As someone who grew up in a polygamous home with multiple siblings and mothers, I surely have a vantage view of this convoluted form of matrimony.My father, grandfathers both paternal and maternal were ardent polygamists in their time. It was common place to mingle with different siblings, cousins, uncles, and aunties without batting our eyelids.I…
When a man finishes eating and refuses to wash his hands, even the dog begins to suspect him. That, in essence, is why the Edo State House of Assembly’s probe into the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) and Radisson Blu Hotel Project is not only proper—it is overdue. Since the revelation that over ₦3.8…
Who would have thought that the choice of your marriage partner would yield monetary advantages. Who would have thought that walking down the aisle or tying the knot with your husband would elicit regular alerts on your phone. It has been a closely guarded secret for those who have been cashing cheques where they didn’t…
When the Federal Government announced that Mathematics would no longer be compulsory for admission into arts and humanities, the applause was instant. Parents sighed with relief; students who had fought lifelong battles with algebra rejoiced online. But beneath the excitement lies a question too serious to ignore: are we reforming education or simply lowering the…
