Culture & Entertainment
Hermit’s Paradise
There was a cleansing whiteness and quietness to the house, a kind of purity that forced one into the now....
A tribute to Sidney Poitier
Aaah! Wow! Erin wo! An elephant has fallen! So sad to see him go. He was a true legend. A...
Why we partnered Army to produce movie on ‘non-kinetic’ operations – Kaduna firm
A Kaduna-based movie company says it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Nigerian Army to produce a...
Bola Ige, other UCI undergrads in ’53
These are undergraduate friends at the University College, Ibadan, in 1953, all decked out in traditional attires. Standing from left...
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...