This piece draws on my firsthand experience of South Africa’s native languages and how it can serve to inspire other African countries struggling with a decline in their native languages.   During my recent trip to South Africa, I visited ...

An aunt asked me yesterday why I write things about my personal life and I was about to get defensive and end the conversation but I thought about it carefully.  This life is your only chance at reality and an ...

Understanding one’s culture is the beginning of wisdom.

A woman was murdered for preaching the gospel of Jesus in the Northern part of Nigeria. SOME Nigerians came online asking, “why was she preaching about Jesus in a Muslim community?” As usual, Nigerians will blame the victim. No matter ...

If you are a male; just take your shirt off and you’d see two little nipples somewhere bilaterally to the sternum. Look at your nipples carefully; you might want to touch just to be sure they are there. So if ...

If you tell Oduduwa that his descendants are now mingling with other nationalities, he would say; I didn’t risk descending from heaven to achieve that If you tell Oranmiyan that Oyo is now a mere state and has no autonomy ...

From the beginning was the word, the word that was felt from far and wide. It’s a five letter word it’s mysterious and invisible, with its power of invincibility it can make one disappears.  Death. Death that fears no one, ...

Odu Ifa: Irosun Irete and Ogunda Meji. Lesson: today’s lesson is talking about why do some people’s prayer are answered and some people’s prayer are not answered. The reason why some people’s prayer are not answered are divided into four ...

WHAT IS IFA? – A lecture by Prof Odeyemi. With due respect to the practitioners of “African Religion”, I wish to state that, until now, writers and even thinkers have tended to overlook a fundamentally important aspect of the religion, ...

Emmanuel Solomon Ssemakula was arrested by police in Nakaseke district for running a cult and claiming that he is Jesus Christ. He told reporters: “I am only preparing people for the end time and the second coming of my dad.” ...