Orijin Will See Me Through, By Pius Adesanmi
How did these little things, so essential to the basic dignity of humanity, come to be fixed in the collective imaginary of this land as Oyinbo attitudes that are strange to our essential culture? In accepting even the slightest compromise in order to maintain your sanity, are you not facilitating…
Restructuring, By Pius Adesanmi
I am a supporter of legitimate claims to self-determination and maybe I have read too many books to subscribe to the silly myth of the indissolubility or indivisibility of any nation-state that Professor Osinbajo and the Nigerian elite are peddling. However, do not go to Biafra, Oodua, and Arewa and…
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A Prayer for You, By Pius Adesanmi
I've never been so happy to be blocked. One less personality cultist I have to contend with in the Nigerian public sphere. If you cannot open someone's mind beyond personality cultism, you are better off not having to even deal with him at all. That is how they will not…
Awon Baba London, By Pius Adesanmi
Being slightly under the weather lately, my chance encounter with a compatriot with zero knowledge of anything about Nigeria after Gowon was therapeutic. If you are a Nigerian in the diaspora, engaged daily with Nigeria and her wahala, and health challenges force a short hiatus on you, pray you encounter…
The Coconut on the Head of Nigerian Christianity, By Pius Adesanmi
If Ambode's story is true, it is a warning to Nigerian Christianity. You wrote the script. You created the class apartheid in Church. Live with the monster you created. Depart from the script and a coconut will be cracked on your head. Ambode versus The media is reporting that Ogbeni…
Donald Trump: Africa Is Not the Owner of this Corpse, By Pius Adesanmi
You have been saying that we should stop blaming colonialism, imperialism, and neocolonialism for our woes. Ok, when you gather around Anderson Cooper tonight for the screaming festival he moderates and calls debates on his show, remember not to blame Africa for the possible tape recording of James Comey by…
The Great Example of Ahmadu Bello University, By Pius Adesanmi
The case of ABU is an example to all vice chancellors and heads of our polytechnics and colleges of education in Nigeria. The change that is being mouthed by politicians cannot happen in society unless it happens first in our spaces of knowledge production for it is our historical mission…
Do You Know What A Luta Continua Means?, By Pius Adesanmi
...the most important aspects of what Samora Machel meant by a luta continua, what he specifically defined the struggle against, have been left out of its Nigerian appropriation by generations of Nigerian students. When the Nigerian student – or even the Nigerian – casually vents, “aluta continua”, tribal hate and…
What’s On Your President’s Plate In Nigeria?, By Pius Adesanmi
You can see that the Empire of Trifle that I have sketched out here has characterised the Presidential Daily Agenda of every President since 1999. Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan, and, now, Buhari have all been enablers of trifledom. Outside of President Trump’s support base, there is a lot of worry about…
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, By Pius Adesanmi
Over the years, Plato’s allegory of the cave has also lost geographic relevance for me in terms of the physical distinction between in and out, home and diaspora. It has come to represent for me the chains and prison of the mind and the escape from it. (For Omoyele Sowore,…
