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"What passes for the Nigerian nation is nothing more than a tragic arena and Yar’Adua is only the latest tragic figure. The vampires, i...

I was watching one of the US news networks some days back when I heard about Gerard Baker's satirical piece in The Times . Soon enough,...

Campaigns are under way for London Mayoral and Assembly elections on May 1 . It's all a bit of a song and dance for this happy band I sn...

Some friends say Let us blog, we’ll call it Kenyablog. They blog and blog and blog. A member posts This blog is tedious, I’m gonna form a bl...

Disrespecting Maya Angelou This must be the most riveting presidential race ever, and one in which I am not eligible to vote. Yet I can’t ta...

The 2007 Nobel Prize winner, Doris Lessing , probably now thinks herself a prophet. A prophet of doom. Lessing spoke to journalists in Stock...

My comment minutes ago to a blog post on Renegade Eye , "Kenya: What is to be done?" Kenya did not seem the kind of place where an...

Writers must sometimes feel like the Greek prophetess Cassandra, gifted to see the future but fated not to be believed. What is unfolding in...

Saturday 10th February, and I went along to this media event where London-based Naija journos got to put questions to Governor Orji Kalu o...