My Writings

“Tell me what a government does when its people are hungry, and I will tell you everything about that government […]

“A fi ọgbọn ṣe oko, a fi agbára gba ọja Wisdom cultivates the farm; it takes strength to hold the

A Generous Nation and Broken State Walk through any market in Ibadan on a Friday afternoon and you will see

“The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one’s curiosity like

Ilú ni bàbá omo The community is the father of the child. ~ Yoruba Proverb The Government That Is Not

I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~ Greek

A man who has no concern for his community is not a man at all. ~ Thucydides, The History of

There is a particular kind of sorrow that has become endemic to the Nigerian civic experience. Interestingly, it is not

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed