UP to the moment he breathed his last on Thursday, March 21, 2013, Chinua Achebe, Africa’s most quoted raconteur, novelist, essayist and social critic, did not know he was the person who ignited my interest in the business of public affairs...

WHEN the reputable The Guardian Newspapers dedicated its daily back page column for Rise Youthspeak, I saw the innovation as a welcome development and unprecedented; an opportunity for the teeming youths in the country, who have no such...

EVENTS in the last few days in the political firmament of Nigeria clearly show that our so-called new breed politicians have not learnt any lessons from the nation’s political experiences right from the first Republic when the same politicians...

SHE had met him only three times before, but unhesitatingly put pen to paper in celebration of the “gentle-faced man in a wheelchair” who, then, had just turned 82. I speak of Chimamanda Adichie, the young enormously already-world-acclaimed...