There is something fundamentally wrong with treating the alleged killing of a citizen as though it were principally a disagreement within the public service.
Across the country, the cost-of-living crisis is not an abstract economic debate.
At a business lunch in December 2022, he said he shouldn’t be voted for a second term if he didn’t fix the electricity supply problem and end estimated billing in his first term.
Mr Soyinka said, “Public lies, like flies, beget maggots.”
For Africa and its diaspora, Mottley now represents something larger than the politics of Barbados.
A mob is a failure of policing. A death in custody is the state performing the violence itself, in a building, on a record, with a docket number.
If Africa remains central to Nigeria’s foreign policy, the UN cannot be peripheral.
For those of you who have approached me since I arrived to ask whether everything is alright with my president, let me assure you that all is well.
The citizens who died in Odigbo were not numbers. Neither were the 37 people who died in Niger.
Sometimes, the best diplomatic strategy is simple: don’t show up.
