Terrorist Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab is the ill-bred scion of privilege that was perhaps destined to be the instrument through which the dead would visit the comeuppance of sleeplessness on a certain vicious establishment that is responsible for the greatest heap of corpses in Nigeria’s history. read more »
Pius Adesanmi's blog
Professing Dangerously: the Road to Charles Soludo
My title plays on the title of Professor Femi Osofisan’s inaugural lecture at the University of Ibadan, “Playing Dangerously”, and my reasons shall become apparent presently. First, an anecdote. Back in secondary school, one of my close cousins, Bola Akanbi, fell in love with Professors. Bola and I were then sharing the same bedroom in my mother’s staff quarters bungalow in the sprawling compound of Titcombe College, Egbe. read more »
Violence against Women in Nigeria: the Internet as Amebo
(Speech delivered at a public symposium jointly organized at Carleton University, Ottawa, by the Institute of African Studies, the Pauline Jewett Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, NIDO Ottawa, and NIMNEWS Radio to mark the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. November 25, 2009)
Introduction to Philosophizing: Responsibilities Beyond Yoruba-Igbo Politics of MAH
Reader, be warned: this column won’t be an easy read this week. We are entering the slippery world of philosophizing for the public which, I argue, carries more responsibility than philosophy itself. This will invite unwieldy material that could tax your patience. The good news: this will be a one-time affair after which I shall return the instigator of the present effort to where he belongs: watch his weekly exertions in bemused silence. Bear with me. read more »
Dewdrops of Memory: Isanlu and the Islam that I knew
Léopold Sédar Senghor was unable to reconcile the contradictory identities of France. There was a France that proclaimed Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity but was at the centre of slavery and colonial brutality. read more »
