COLUMNIST: FEMI AKOMOLAFE

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While researching an article I wrote for a Chinese journal, I discovered something almost wonderfully symbolic in the st ...

Many Africans remain blissfully oblivious that maps are not innocent; they are weapons wielded by empire builders. Li ...

Some issues are too difficult to tackle with a normal essay, polemical or otherwise. In such instances, I try satire to ...

There is a question that ought to trouble every Nigerian resident in Ghana, and indeed every citizen who cares about how ...

Two recent media events necessitated this question. At a recent Oval Office exchange, a journalist, NewsNation White ...

The urgent questions before the Nigerian Community in Ghana are: 1. At what point does an association cease to be an ...

Today, 1 September 2026, marks the first anniversary of President Xi Jinping rsquo;s Global Governance Initiative (GGI) ...

The reason I use a lot of Yoruba proverbs on this blog is that I not only find them fascinating and rich, but I also use ...

To find an answer to the persistent rumors that President Trump, the world rsquo;s most powerful man, was smuggled out o ...

My recent experience with the Nigerian High Commission in Accra is one of the moments when an apparently insignificant e ...

We then have questions that are so morally grotesque, so historically tone-deaf, that one is compelled to pause and ask ...

There is something profoundly disturbing about the manner in which the Ghana Police Service sometimes presents Nigerians ...

This piece grew out of my reply to a recent WhatsApp group discussion. I greatly expanded on my contributions. There ...

There is something almost comically farcical about Nigeria rsquo;s approaching election in the state of Osun. Comical ...

ldquo;Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it. rdquo; n ...