Tag: kunle ajibade
In honour of Odia Ofeimun
Odia Ofeimun is formidably learned and insightful. His poetry and journalism are distinguished by their eloquence and dazzling intelligence.
Revelations, as Ajibade engages Ojudu, Oroh on June 12, activism at LABAF
Ajibade—who also did three years in Makurdi Prison after being jailed for life by the Abacha regime—opened the conversation thus:…
Jailed for Life: Beyond Death and Dictatorship
It is getting to 25 years when Jailed for Life: A Reporter’s Prison Notes by Kunle Ajibade was published. A…
Kunle Ajibade: The legend of conscience Abacha could not kill
In his as ever combative foreword to What a Country!, the acclaimed poet, essayist and political commentator, Odia Ofeimun, wrote…
DAME to honour Ajibade Nov. 30
After graduation, he worked as a Copywriter with Grant Advertising in Lagos; Senior Correspondent, The African Concord; Assistant Editor, The…
A daughter’s search for her father, how a country found its missing pages
When Nigerien filmmaker, Amina Mamani, lost her father Mamani Abdoulaye, novelist, writer, poet, activist and politician in a rather extenuating…
Becoming Taiwo Taiwo
Kunle Ajibade shows that Chief Mrs Taiwo Taiwo, in her autobiography, My Mother’s Daughter, is a champion who fights a…
Photo News: Amaechi, RMD, others attend Wole Soyinka’s book launch
It was an evening of music spiced with readings of excerpts from Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka's new book, Chronicles…
Paying the Price for Press Freedom in Nigeria
It was Sir Tom Stoppard, the British playwright and screenwriter that succinctly opined that “I still believe that if your…
Tribute for Kunle Ajibade
If you knew Kunle Ajibade in his early days of journalism, he would not invoke the image of a jailbird…
Kunle Ajibade @ 60
It was indeed a colourful day. One you would wish lingered for a little longer, but then every good thing…
Photo News: Faces at Kunle Ajibade’s Colloquium
Earlier today, Omoluabi to the core, Mr Ajibade on the occasion of his 60th birthday, was today honoured in a…
Kunle Ajibade colloquium: Ajibade, a man worthy of emulation
Iconic and renowned journalist, editor and author, Mr Kunle Ajibade is an Omoluabi who served as a reporter for various…
Biodun Jeyifo’s Humanising Pedagogy by Kunle Ajibade
By Kunle Ajibade When we learnt on December 14 1987 that Dr Biodun Jeyifo had resigned from the University of…
Of Gbadegesin’s Sense of Duty
By Kunle Ajibade William Faulkner, the winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote in one of his novels,…
Which Path To Economic Growth And Development In Africa?
By Kunle Ajibade Last week, The Economist of London (June 20th – 26th 2015 edition) ran a story on the…
Experts Decry Dearth Of Investigative Journalism
Eromosele Ebhomele Prominent Nigerian journalists have decried the dearth of investigative journalism by practising journalists in Nigeria as a way…
P.M.NEWS Is 20 Today
P.M.NEWS, Nigeria’s leading and only surviving evening newspaper, is exactly 20 years today and we have every cause to beat…
Exclusive: Wole Soyinka reflects on his life at 80
Professor Wole Soyinka gives a broader view of his life at 80 in a scintillating interview with the TheNEWS. It’s…
Yoruba leaders should forge a synergy –Senator Ayo Fasanmi
Funsho Arogundade Frontline politician and Afenifere chieftain, Senator Ayo Fasanmi, has urged fellow Yoruba leaders to forget their differences and…
Community Organising As Nation Building
By Kunle Ajibade The British academic, rabbi and author of The Politics of Hope, Professor Jonathan Sacks, observes that community…
Books, Headlines, News, Opinion
Championing The Cause Of African Women
By Kunle Ajibade Let me begin with Chinweizu, the non-conformist pan-African intellectual who wrote The West and the Rest of…
A Combatant’s Chronicle Of The Nigeria–Biafra War
By Kunle Ajibade It is quite thoughtful that General Godwin Alabi–Isama has chosen Nelson Mandela’s birthday to present his book,…
Defending Our Votes
By Babafemi Ojudu Let me start my reflections on the sanctity of electoral mandates with a personal experience of the…
In Celebration Of A Master Carver
By Kunle Ajibade There is an anecdote in this well-produced coffee table book with which I would like to begin…