Thursday Column

Thursday Column

The flamboyant World Cup that blossomed in the Desert

I suppose it is fitting for arguably the greatest player in the history of football to win the World Cup in arguably the greatest World Cup final ther

A goat named Saddam

Once when we were much younger, our neighbours in Jos had a furiously fertile she-goat that birthed a litter of two or three kids now and then. But in

The Couch, the Church and Chatham House

Ramaphosa, Akufo-Addo and Tinubu as metaphors for Africa’s misplaced priorities The largest basilica in the world is in Africa. The Basilica of Our La

Aisha Buhari and her chamber of torture

There was something brilliantly shocking about the opening sequence of Kemi Adetiba’s 2018 Netflix movie, King of Boys. It opens at a flamboyant party

World Cup in the desert, oil in the north

Much of the world’s attention is focused on a small country in the Arabian desert where some of the best footballers in the world, and some of the not