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The other day, on the plane, two ladies sat behind me. I was minding my own business, re-reading one of my pieces, “Mummy let the Singles Breathe” (https://www.newtimes.com.ng/mummy-let-the-singles-breathe/). However, the conversation between these two women, whom I will call Miss A and Miss B here, distracted me and captured my attention. Trust me, I always mind my business,and I tried my best to turn […]
Continue ReadingDistinguished members of the faculty, esteemed guests, and the vibrant student body of the University of Lagos, it is with immense humility and profound gratitude that I stand before you today. As I accept this honorary doctorate, a powerful emblem of scholarly eminence, I am reminded of the incredible journey this prestigious institution has undertaken […]
Continue ReadingDo you remember the wedding party I attended the other day? The one I saw Bẹ́kùnBẹ́kùn at? Yes, that one. I called it Ayamatanga! Google it!! I saw something else too. The bridesmaids’ dresses looked like they had a mission to seduce. Indeed, two of them were looking at me, and it reminded me that […]
Continue ReadingThe Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) has awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award to Toyin Falola, a professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas, Austin. CAAS is the preeminent association of Canadian scholars studying Africa. The Lifetime Achievement Award […]
Continue ReadingI Death Twilight-zone, Afterlife, What-Mays, and Whatnots; Questions that transcend mortal thoughts. Uncertainties plucked by the hands of certainty pondering life beyond the galaxy. Philosophies, religions, and sciences; Ancient lenses to dissect and ponder. Beliefs, opinions, and standpoints in their multiplicities; Scalpels that open the heart of certain death Blazing free the skins of uncertainty. […]
Continue ReadingApart from basking in the euphoria of Arsenal’s current form, few other things gave me momentary excitement in the last one month like knowing that the great Toyin Falola is after all, only my younger brother. I am not big on birthdays and almost every year, I have to beg for forgiveness from aggrieved friends […]
Continue ReadingFor many people, age 70 is a point of celebration. They invite several individuals to felicitate with them for what they have been through, what they have achieved, and all that has happened in seven decades. It is worth the celebration. Casting one’s mind back to every single moment and drawing out several memories, journeys, […]
Continue ReadingIt isn’t usual for me to devote an entire column to celebrate the birthday of an individual. But Professor Toyin Falola, a far-famed endowed professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin whom I have called the patriarch of African academics in North America, isn’t an everyday individual. He is an institution, a […]
Continue ReadingI am so sad as I write this. I never knew that things will become so bad. Immigrant scholars in the US have now become like the Europeans in 19th century Africa, the colonizers who saw nothing good about the continent. This is now the intellectual stuff on the Internet. I have read five in […]
Continue ReadingThe book, Sweat is Invisible in the Rain, written by Cherno M. Njie, is better classified as a documentation of three interconnected stages of the author’s life, career, vision, and ambition. The book successfully privileges the historical and the factual over the literary. It deals with causation using a wide range of facts, explaining why […]
Continue ReadingDeath, captured in a box suspended in mid-air Slowly ascending to land on a rock too far to see. The phantom is bold Killing the scion of creativity and talent A Fallen Branch None of us can determine the frequency of death and predict the timing of its occurrence. You and I are slaves to […]
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