With openly gay and suspected gay individuals facing not only ostracism but harassment and even death in parts of the continent and with even]clergymen who should be preaching caution and love in dealings with those we see as different leading the hate brigade, it seems the time is ripe for the spreading of more awareness about […]

by Tola Adenle Photo Credit:  Depo Adenle, November 2011 I first noticed them in the 90s, crude signs written right on the walls of houses big and small or on wooden boards nailed to the properties.  For the most part, though, these were all properties in the not-that-nice parts of town  although I won’t be […]

by Dan Ugwo [Thanks, Mr. Ugwo. You’ve opened up a bleeding heart in prose and followed with poetry. What’s more to say than post these feelings in response to “a crime syndicate masquerading as a nation”, http://emotanafricana.com/?s=A+new+series+is+born%3A+A+crime+syndicate+masquerading+as+a+nation&submit.x=8&submit.y=10 so that more can enjoy your subtle approach to pleading with President Jonathan and those in power to […]

FIRST:   Muyiwa Adetiba’s story in The Guardian, http://emotanafricana.com/2011/11/21/the-nigerian-situation-brought-face-to-face-muyiwa-adetiba-face-to-face-with-humiliation-at-the-american-embassy/, reproduced here last week has received not only much readership but  has brought some readers asking through my emotanafricana@gmail.com –  about the double “face to face” used in the title.  Adetiba’s column, “Face to Face with Muyiwa Adetiba” in the Punch long before he edited the paper was, perhaps, […]

5in5 with Attorney and Social Entrepreneur Folake Ayoola by Afropolitan Experience My conversation with Ms Ayoola was so good, we had to create a ‘part 2′ for you guys. I really wanted to get into her passion for fashion, but I figured I was pushing it with ‘part 2′. Alright, go watch and figure out […]

Herewith the picture I promised earlier in the week as regards the essay, http://emotanafricana.com/2011/11/23/fads-fashions-classics/ Photo Credit:  Depo Adenle A brief note on this little wood number which I bought at one of those flea market days in the Spring of 1989 at Georgetown in Washington, D.C.  I do not remember exactly how much I paid […]

“… [Nigerian] women who travel abroad to purchase things for sale, generally may be women of means and paper qualifications but not of ideas”. – A beloved late “Uncle” on Nigeria’s women trend-setters. In March 1980, members of the Ibadan Chapter of the Nigerian Association of University Women held a reception for five of our […]

Pay compensation or face consequences, FG warns BA, Virgin Atlantic   By Kenneth Ehigiator, Vanguard, November 18, 2011     LAGOS — The Federal Government, yesterday, dared British Airways and Virgin Atlantic Airways to refuse to compensate Nigerians for their unfair method of competition, deceptive practices and violation of Nigerian law and be prepared to […]

[Muyiwa Adetiba cut his journalistic teeth when Eleke Crescent where he came "face to face" - to borrow his column's title in which he grilled personalities starting from the 70s - with humiliation recently, was not yet named for Walter Carrington, an Abacha-era US Ambassador who was at the vanguard of the fight for democracy in Nigeria.  His story in […]

How Short Human Memory Is. Dr Abati Changes His Views By Rabb Adebiyi  [This came to me last week but even though it's a re-hash - that's what most of what I post, anyway, (sort of) is:  my comments on news items, etcetera, my past newspaper and magazine essays AND essays and comments by many […]