I was already a lecturer in Nigeria in 1992, having got my BA in 1990.Life was tough for academics. The profession was seen as poor even by non-academics.The claim that academics were economically empowered is not true, as most were ...

Yesterday we met again to see if they had hot pepper soup at the local African joint. Logically, when these simple folks enter a pepper soup joint, it is like Ṣẹ̀lẹ́ enter spirit: matters get philosophically historical like a magical ...

Captioned Universe, Mejiverse, Metaverse, Merinverseacrylic on canvas2022 By Prof. Moyo Okediji

ÀṢẸ in Ede Oodua (Yoruba) ASHE in North America (United States, Europe, Afro-Caribbean, Canada) AXE in Brazil. ACHE in Cuba. ÀṢẸ, ASHE, AXE, ACHE emanated from the Yoruba Àṣẹ. There are now attempts to equate the word Ase with the ...

Those familiar with the Oyo-speaking parts of Yoruba country would notice that these folks refer to sugar as Iyọ̀ọ-Ṣúgà. If they were strangers, it might confound them, because they would translate Iyọ̀ as salt, and wouldn’t understand why it is ...

“Prof, I read your posting on the woman who is unsure about whether to disclose the biological father of her daughter to the daughter,” the caller said on the phone.“You did?” I asked rhetorically.“Yes,” she continued. “I have a story ...

I once visited a rich single lady living in a gorgeous house with the most amazing furniture. After we ate, I felt relaxed and we started a great conversation, with expensive wine served in elegantly shaped goblets. That was when ...

I laff so-stay las’ night my head fall common my neck. And I’m not making up this story. My Chinese friend called me and said her friend, Tunde, who lives in Canada, wanted me to tell her the meaning of ...

In the Yoruba language, there is no goodbye. “Ó dàbọ̀,” which is what stands for the idea of goodbye, actually is the very opposite of goodbye. Why? Because “Ó dàbọ̀” does not say that you are leaving. Rather, as you ...

This message is for young people. And those young at heart. Do Africans have original ideas about love and romance? Is it Cupid with the bow shooting an arrow to pierce a heart? Is there an African logic of love? ...