COLUMNIST: FEMI AKOMOLAFE

Until ordinary people acquire a genuine stake in the relationships negotiated on their behalf, global cooperation will r ...

How long shall we continue to be subjected to the spectacle of the nauseating and expensive annual pilgrimage of African ...

(I borrowed the title, with apologies, from Georges Clemenceau, who famously said that war is too important to be left t ...

Aso Rock announced that President Tinubu will fly to Makkah for Umrah, pray for Nigeria 39;s peace, unity, stability, a ...

I stopped wasting my precious time educating idiots long ago. As we have consistently proclaimed on this blog, we hav ...

This blog exists solely to challenge orthodoxy. We make it our business to ask the most uncomfortable questions. We don ...

After an obscure ex-soldier and presidential wannabe in Kenya grabbed global headlines by threatening to send the $1 ...

Any lover of Yoruba culture and epistemology can only grieve as he watches the sickness eating through Yoruba society. N ...

I believe Africa has reached that point when reverence for the past insults both the present and the future. We canno ...

As the poorly equipped but highly motivated Houthi tribesmen dismantle its ultra-expensive military infrastructure in re ...

As we have maintained on this blog, our primary focus is on Africa. Of course, we recognize that we do not live in isola ...

Every September, the same theatrical ceremony unfolds in New York like clockwork. A procession of the plantation supe ...

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 ...