Notes from Atlanta

Notes from Atlanta

A vote for ‘Naija’ and against ‘Nigeria’

The National Orientation Agency isrelaunching a pointless andmisguided campaign to preserve the appellative“originality” of “Nigeria

Celebrating a wonderful Black American family

  Today’s column is a revised version of a column I wrote in 2012 to celebrate the Black History month.   February is America’s-

The dangerous criminalization of Fulani ethnicity

  The Nigerian mass media-and the online echo chambers they have spawned on social media and elsewhere-have normalized the pathologization and cr

Buhari’s Gambian gambit as Borno burns

Gambians are our West African brothers and sisters who deserve our help in their hour of need. I get that. But no one can truly help the other when th

Memories and legacies from my late father

During my last six-minute phone conversation with my late father on December 28, 2016, he said something that was morbidly poignant.  When I told