June 12, the mandate – Wole Soyinka

(As prepared for the formal recognition of June 12, 1993, and conferment of national honours on stalwarts of that struggle.)   The annulment of the presidential elections of June 12, 1993 was a negative watershed in Nigerian history. It opened…

June 12: Stop showing loyalty to Abacha, Soyinka tells President (Punch)

Twenty-five years after the military dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd.), annulled the June 12, 1993 presidential election won by the late Chief Moshood Abiola, President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday formally apologised to the family of the deceased who died in…

Na God go punish that Fela – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

When Fela Anikulapo-Kuti died on August 2, 1997, one holier-than-thou friend became outraged that I was mentioned in The Guardian’s front page report of the passing as one of the notable apostles of the Afrobeat legend. I shut the poor…

The story of Borojah, the Poor but Aristocratic Poet? – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Lagos, my Lagos, is fast losing its beans. It breaks my heart no end that the choice spots that used to give Lagos its onions are no longer there. For instance, the first ever hotel I lodged in can no…

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