Describes zoning as poor, lazy, poisonous politics Dismisses current political leadership as the worst that has ever governed Nigeria Says Legislature acting as if waging war against women. As the north and south continue to bicker over which region of the country produces the successor to incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari, the spokesman of the Northern…
A Critique of Hakeem Baba-Ahmed’s ‘Rejoinder’
(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 11 October, 2021) Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Tanzanian who won the Nobel Prize in Literature last week has a very interesting definition of honour. He says it means “respect yourself (so that) others will come to respect you.” That is from his ‘Paradise’ – a ‘narrative reversal’ of Joseph…
2023: For Hakeem Baba-Ahmed
(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 27 September, 2021) Alhaji Baba Ahmed, a Mauritanian cow seller, plied his trade from his country to the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and to Dahomey (now Benin Republic). Business was very good but at a point, his customers in Dahomey, with impunity, refused to pay for his cows.…
