At a business lunch in December 2022, he said he shouldn’t be voted for a second term if he didn’t fix the electricity supply problem and end estimated billing in his first term.
Mr Soyinka said, “Public lies, like flies, beget maggots.”
For Africa and its diaspora, Mottley now represents something larger than the politics of Barbados.
A mob is a failure of policing. A death in custody is the state performing the violence itself, in a building, on a record, with a docket number.
If Africa remains central to Nigeria’s foreign policy, the UN cannot be peripheral.
For those of you who have approached me since I arrived to ask whether everything is alright with my president, let me assure you that all is well.
The citizens who died in Odigbo were not numbers. Neither were the 37 people who died in Niger.
Sometimes, the best diplomatic strategy is simple: don’t show up.
Culture is not an aesthetic preset. You cannot prompt your way into a lived experience.
Correcting the world map is not evidence that Africa’s diplomatic clout is growing. It demonstrates how relatively cheap recognition can be.
