Arts & Life
FIRST MEETING
In retrospect I missed These causeries etched Unto the canvas of my soul From the distant Savannah Warbles a lone...
Bashir Tofa and friends in London
The death, this week, of Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa was a very emotional moment for a lot Nigerians. Many went...
Bashir Tofa and his eight books
It was raining when I drove into Kano on that sultry day in June. All through the six-hour journey from...
Otun Iyalode Humuani Alaga
Humuani was born in Ibadan in 1897. She was one of the interesting and phenomenal Ibadan women in the 20th...
LIFE (For Bashir Tofa)
Ephemeral Is this life with bunches Of promises. Some are so lucky To live like candles Lighting others, While they...
Meet Thomas Fuller, the “Virginia Calculator”
Thomas Fuller, an African sold into slavery in 1724 at the age of 14, was sometimes known as the “Virginia...
Benjamin Adekunle, ‘The Black Scorpion’
The legendary Brigadier Benjamin Adesanya Maja Adekunle (1936- 2014), a.k.a. ‘The Black Scorpion’, was one of the most successful military...
African writers demand justice for detained Ugandan author Kakwenza Rukirabashaija
The Pan African Writers Association (PAWA) has demanded that the Ugandan authorities allow the detained novelist, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija unfettered access...
Sardauna and Tafawa ride through Kaduna
Premier of the Northern Region, Sir Ahmadu Bello (Sardaunan Sokoto), and the Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa, driving through the...
Royal fathers visit Gen Murtala
The Head of State, General Murtala Ramat Muhammed (November 8, 1938 - February 13, 1976), flanked by the Emir of...