The promise of the “African Century” is currently facing its most gruelling test as the continent grapples with a youth unemployment surge that threatens to turn a demographic dividend into a disaster...
Ghana has formally asked the African Union to put xenophobic attacks against African nationals in South Africa on the agenda of its mid-year coordination meeting in El Alamein next month, a diplomatic...
There is a cruel irony at the heart of African politics. The continent that birthed humanity now borrows its governing philosophy from those who, not long ago, used philosophy as a weapon against it. ...
When the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board invited me to Yenagoa as a guest author and lead facilitator for its quarterly leadership dialogue, I accepted without hesitation. There was ...
Nigeria’s growing reliance on so-called “peace deals” with bandits is raising serious moral and strategic concerns. Whatever arrangement that appears to reward marauding violent actors, without justic...
In the unforgiving theatre of Nigerian politics, death rarely arrives with a bang. It comes as a slow bleed, with governors vanishing overnight, senators switching jerseys mid-season, state assemblies...
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Nigeria is bleeding in places the nation rarely names until the funerals force a headline. In just the past two weeks, insurgent violence has torn through Kaiama Local Government in Kwara State and th...
Dear Lagos Elite, I get it. Makoko, Oworonshoki, Bariga, etc., assault your senses. They are slums. They are dirty. They are not pretty. We’d prefer high-rises overlooking the waterfront. They’ll be n...
A democracy rarely collapses in a single dramatic moment. More often, it is slowly redesigned—clause by clause—until citizens wake up one day to discover that elections still happen, but accountabilit...