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Life Challenges, No. 13: The Age of Humiliation, By Toyin Falola

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When We Remembered Our Names We had been bending so long that our children thought that the human body was meant to have a curved back. We had whispered so long that silence became our inheritance, passed from grandmother to mother, from father to frightened son. They took our ancestral names and gave us numbers. […]

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Daniel Bwala’s Al Jazeera Humiliation, By Farooq A. Kperogi

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I barely know Daniel Bwala. He came to the forefront of national media attention in 2022 because of his impassioned opposition to the choice of Kashim Shettima as Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s running mate. But beyond his public break from the APC, he came across to me as a voluble, ignorant and opportunistic careerist, not because […]

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