Pius Adesanmi's blog

I am worried about Professor Pat Utomi. Anyone who, like me, has been in awe of the unimpeachable progressive bona fides of this engagé public intellectual in the last three decades should be worried.  read more »

A high powered delegation from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPA) and representatives of the Nobel Prize committee for Physics have arrived in Abuja, Nigeria, on a fact finding mission. The two important delegations aim to verify and authenticate the scientific essence of certain developments in Nigeria that have literally caused a tsunami in the global scientific community.  read more »

These are definitely not the best of times for Gloria Steinem and the “gender trouble” radicals in her flock.  read more »

Very senior officials of the American, French, British, and German governments recently held fruitful discussions with their Nigerian counterparts in Accra, Ghana. The purpose of the meeting was to amicably resolve disputes that have developed over exclusive rights to treat the minor ailments of Nigerian rulers and ‘top government functionaries'.  read more »

I met black America for the first time in 2005, after three years of living and teaching in America, and one year before I returned to Canada. The long journey to this eventful meeting started in my father's library in Isanlu, a small town in central Nigeria. I came of age in Nigeria as the locust decades of military despotism and civilian kleptocracy set in, destroying everything including what used to be known as the middle class.  read more »