COLUMNIST: FEMI AKOMOLAFE

Fellow Africans, as it rsquo;s our wont on this blog, let us ask another uncomfortable question: did we actually become ...

For Nigerians old enough to remember when their country proudly, and with merit, proclaimed itself the Giant of Africa, ...

In a colorful ceremony on 28 August 2026, Chinese businessman Zheng Xiangming, chairman of Greenhouse International Deve ...

Again, rather than a blunt, no-holds-barred polemic, I shall employ political satire to address the news item in ModernG ...

Yoruba proverb: Ograve;j uacute; ? run t oacute; gbogbo ?y? l aacute;ti f ograve; l aacute; igrave; fara gb aacute;r ...

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 ...