by Tola Adenle As I promised, I’m posting two wonderful pictures from a wedding day sent by someone I know to add to our collections on Alaari, one of the three classic Yoruba aso oke or ofi, which I recently had occasion to point out is a generic name – like aso oke – for […]

While it is heartening to learn of the swiftness and efficiency of law enforcement and the dispensing of justice in the case of breaking and entering a car that temporarily yielded the thief a car stereo at Abuja recently, I wish the system would operate the same way every time. Forty-one year-old Umoh Asuquo, who […]

by Tola Adenle It is not only Kenya that is mourning the passing of an African giant, Wangari Maathai, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.  Dr. Maathai passed away this morning in her native Kenya, far from the world stage that was hers since her work on environmental degradation by huge commercial plantation in Kenya […]

[While thousands of emergency “philanthropists” have  sprouted since the return to civil rule in 1999 – thanks to using such for political gains – there are quite a few in Nigeria for whom genuine philanthropy is not to gain political positions or, worse, to get noticed.  I say ‘worse’ because any Giving is eventually good […]

by Tola Adenle     Why would one try to re-invent the wheel?  Why would I try to rack my brain for another title when one that is most apt not just because of the similarities between two seemingly very different countries but also because events in at least one country are Dickens’ Tale of […]

I’ve blogged for some years on various sites but my two favorites have been saharareporters.com and 234NEXT.com.  Here are a few of what must be scores of commentaries on various topics: Posted by TOLA ADENLE on Apr 12 2010.  Amman Ogan’s HERE AND THERE [Men] Saying Sorry [http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5552757-146/here_and_there_saying_sorry_.csp] In “Baby can I hold you tonight” […]

Retired General Obasanjo’s “democratic” government looked elsewhere as one state government after another in Northern Nigeria declared Sharia despite secularity enshrined in the Constitution because of selfish reason of self-perpetuation.  Earlier, rtd. General Babangida’s military government ensured Plateau would never know peace by the distribution of local governments that pitched Christians against Moslems, etcetera. I […]

CONTACT US – at:  info@emotanafricana.com  

This is perhaps the most interesting of the three great classics.  Yeah, interesting may be a vague word but it’s the only word that comes to my mind as I write this.  Pardon me, I’m going to take a shot at the pronunciation but it’s NOT going to be that accurate: ALA (both ‘A‘s are […]

by Tola Adenle [With the incredible WIKILEAKS' reports of rivers of corruption from just about all at the top, including ministers, and with the three arms of government laid prostrate under charges and/or insinuations of  corruption, what better time to re-run one of those essays from the past that sounds as if it was written […]