Tag: Okey Ndibe

Nigeria’s darkness seemed, quite simply, to be darkening.

Two Saturdays ago, I had the privilege of giving a keynote at an international conference organized at the Senate House ...

Last Wednesday—the 54th anniversary of Nigeria’s Independence—was a day of silence for me. I didn’t have the stomach to leave ...

This September, I was determined to scour for signs that Nigeria was moving in a good direction. I was able ...

The dreaded Ebola virus and Boko Haram represent different faces of two most dire crises currently plaguing Nigeria. The former ...

Here (culled for brevity) is what Bishop Kukah had to say about me (and, in an indirect way, about some ...

Wole Soyinka turned 80 at the very beginning of this week. For many, that milestone must seem incredible.

Something really, really dangerous has happened in Nigeria. It is the reduction of human life to the scale of an ...

For me, one of the most disconcerting facts about public discourse in Nigeria—including intellectual exchanges—is the rampant, if not default, ...

There is a sense in which the name of the malaise afflicting Nigeria is Biafra. I have argued before—and I ...