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…
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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,…
The Nigerian Presidency as a Foster Parent of Crimes, By Pius Adesanmi
The only reason that the identities of the owners of the Ikoyi billions cannot be revealed and an institution of the Nigerian state – NIA – must be given marching orders to own the crime is that there is unity of purpose in the confederacy of illicit interests. They are…
Mukaila’s Place, By Pius Adesanmi
The point is not that there are no neighbourhood or class divisions in other societies, especially in the West. The point is that a society must ensure a putative possibility of movement. Your society must never foreclose the possibility of your even dreaming that with hard work, you could move…
Nigerian Army, Innovation and the Key in the Dog’s Teeth, By Pius Adesanmi
Given the history of the Nigerian Army, you are not really talking to your boys, are you? You are warning Nigerians in general: use social media to talk about the Army in a way we don’t like and you shall see! Never be too quick to commend a Nigerian official…
The Madness Only Home Understands, By Pius Adesanmi
No you don't sir, I replied. You are just being sympathetic to me. You have to be home to understand what I have just shown you. Home is the madness that only home understands. You have to be Nigerian to understand what brought me to this wood to embrace noise.…
Dino: 21st-Century Crook, 17th-Century University, By Pius Adesanmi
So when you hear yeye ABU students and alumni saying that despite Dino, ABU is this and that, tell them to shut up or else we shall frog march them to the Eagle Square Dino is nothing but a 21st-century crook produced by a 17th-Century University. A fallout of Dinogate:…
There Is A Future For Us Beyond the Orangutans, By Pius Adesanmi
You have to constantly own the right to project into a future when we would have won the battle and there would be real, 21st-century human beings in a credible 21st-century Senate who are there for their constituents. When this happens, what will you do about the precedent you are…
Thoughts on President Buhari’s Medical Advice to Nigerians, By Pius Adesanmi
A citizen who reads that he or she is being advised to get medical care in crumbled and ramshackle clinics and hospitals by a President just returning from a publicly-funded medical safari in London is also sick because such a citizen has just been emotionally and psychologically violated. From what…
