D’Rovans and the vanity of life, By Festus Adedayo

Festus Adedayo writes about Obasa, Aláàfin Ṣàngó and the capture of Lagos.

At the height of its glory, D’Rovans Hotel in Ibadan, Oyo State, stood like the Chappal Waddi. Standing 2419 metres or 7996 feet above sea level, this mountain, infamously nicknamed the Mountain of Death, near the Cameroon border, in Taraba State, is said to be the highest in West Africa. D’Rovans shares that colossal legend. In […]

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“Athens of West Africa?” Slavery, epistemology, and the limits of decolonisation, By Ibrahim Abdullah

Professor-Ibrahim-Abdullah writes about Dr Segun Osoba as the historian of radical political economy.

….the question is not whether Fourah Bay College deserves admiration. It is whether its intellectual history must be narrated through a metaphor that reinscribes colonial hierarchies of value. Why must African higher education be intelligible through Athens at all? Why is classical antiquity the benchmark, rather than the Atlantic and Sudanic worlds that actually shaped […]

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Ex-INEC REC faults Senate on electronic transmission of election, lists dangers

Mike Igini

On Tuesday, the Senate rescinded its earlier decision on the Electoral Act amendment in which it had rejected the mandatory electronic transmission of election results from polling units to the INEC’s Result Viewing Portal (IREV) after vote counting.

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US-Nigeria: The partnership of the hawk and the hen, By Owei Lakemfa

Owei Lakemfa writes about Yeslem Beisat.and the Sahrawi struggle.

Information filtered through a few weeks ago, that “a small team” of United States (US) soldiers were in Nigeria. On Tuesday, 10 February an additional information was that 200 American soldiers are being deployed to provide security for the small team. I am sure that soon these 200 would need a thousand US soldiers to […]

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