Compelling stories create impact that shapes the future. And leaders who fail to tell honest stories shape nothing but frustration and disappointment.
If Lionel Messi were to play in Nigeria tomorrow, there is only one venue in the entire country where the match could be sanctioned. One stadium. In a nation of 230 million people.
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.
