Tag: Dr Festus Adedayo

I have been asked severally what my opinion was on last week’s presidential media chat. First, I must commend the ...

The unnamed woman had just given birth to a baby five days before. Her body was still wet as Yoruba ...

This past Monday, Nigeria’s Vice President, Kashim Shettima, held the fèèrè (flute) and blew it admirably. However, bystanders listening to ...

The question of whether the law of defamation is a hindrance to freedom of speech and a curtailment to democratic ...

In 1992, Leon Mugesera, a senior politician in the then Rwanda ruling party, gathered a crowd of supporters at a ...

In 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘐𝘴 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘞𝘪𝘴𝘦 – 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘐𝘴 𝘞𝘪𝘴𝘦, 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘏𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘴 𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘖𝘸𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤: ...

In a gripping but evergreen musical rendition of a Yoruba folklore, late Fuji music lord, Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, once deployed ...

On April 4, 2021, I wrote a piece with the title The President is a sick man: Buhari’s Secret Therapy ...

On February 18, 1947, the Daily Service newspaper published a story whose theme, like the ancient Secretarybird, has remained with ...

One of the thematic preoccupations of the book, What the forest told me: Yoruba hunter, culture and narrative performance, (2014) ...