Everything came together when Seun Kuti slapped a police officer on the Third Mainland Bridge.
I could hear Bola Tinubu responding to worried Nigerians by regurgitating the words of the first stanza of Soyinka’s poem, Abiku.
I present to you the late Professor Claude Ake in his own words.
When African leaders vote against their self-interest at the UN, check very well someone has been arm-twisted.
Wole Soyinka should stop trying to adapt the world to himself. But he won’t. That is what makes all stubborn grandfathers stand out.
When leaders chip away at the tenets of democracy, it affects everything.
Those who intend to perpetuate genocide begin by finding ways, using laws and customs, to deny rights to the group they intend to slaughter.
Lagos must not allow itself to be overrun by myopic men and women who do not believe in the ideals that made Lagos what it is.
We can forgive those young people who think Obasanjo became penis-shy about protest because of the EndSARS killings.
If you like, shine your eyes, yank off the cobwebs of religion, ethnicity, and other stereotypes, and vote for competency and merit.
