Tag: Festus Adedayo
Tinubu’s Lifejacket & A Deer’s Sacred Skin By Festus Adedayo
What hunters see in the forest is enough to make children of men without balls blind. An ethnographic study of hunters in a wild...
Dele Momodu: Celebrity Of Nigerian Journalism @ 65 By Festus Adedayo
Last week, icon of the Nigerian media, Dele Momodu, celebrated his 65th birthday. One of the events hallmarking the celebration was the Dele Momodu...
Aso Rock’s Voodoo Statistics And My Friend, Al Venter By Festus...
A couple of months ago, history walked on its two legs into my feeble embrace. When it did, I never knew it was Providence’s...
Umo Eno, Oborevwori & Okowa’s Political Harlotry By Festus Adedayo
Is there morality in politics? Or, should there be morality in politics? Governors of Akwa-Ibom and Delta States, Umo Eno, Sheriff Oborevwori and ex-governor...
Nigeria Hosts Nyerere’s One-Party Ghost By Festus Adedayo
It was almost impossible not to be infected by the joy writ large on the face of the One-party state Villa-fawning group this past...
Nigerian Leaders As CBEX Ponzi Chancers By Festus Adedayo
On Page 28 of his very provocative book, The Present Darkness: A history of Nigerian organized crime, (2016) Stephen Ellis, British historian and Africanist,...
Olunloyo: Goodnight, Voltaire By Dr. Festus Adedayo
At his ancient 'imperial' home in Molete, Ibadan last Thursday, I wrote in the condolence register: “He was a man, like French philosopher, Voltaire,...
‘Tell Your Papa’ As The Spirit Of Rwanda’s Simon Bikindi By...
In July, 2006, John Street, Emeritus Professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the United States’ University of East...
‘Our Doc, Who Art In The National Palace’ By Festus Adedayo
On April 23, 1971, the New York Times did a feature on Haitian tyrant, Francois Duvalier, infamously known as Papa Doc.
It reported Duvalier...
Tinubu Is The Law! By Dr Festus Adedayo
"Everything is my business. Everything. Anything I say is law...literally law." Barbara Geddes, et al in their How dictatorship works (2018) quoted Malawian dictator,...
