One of Nelson Mandela’s staunchest allies in his battle against HIV/Aids was Bill Clinton. Photograph: Albert Olive/AP In his last years, increasingly frail though he...
To mark the Commonwealth Games 2014 opening in Glasgow, Scotland, this week, the Commonwealth Youth Orchestra & Choir has held the first ever Commonwealth...
“Those who unleashed Boko Haram on the nation are not poverty stricken. They are politicians …. desperate for power, intelligent enough or perceptive enough...
Professor Wole Soyinka, Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist, became the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986. Beyond his successful literary career,...
Professor Wole Soyinka, Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist, became the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986. Beyond his successful literary career,...
Mamphela Ramphele, a prominent veteran of the struggle against apartheid, raised great expectations in early 2013 by entering politics and starting a new party. A...
The Managing Editor (North) of New Telegraph newspaper, Suleiman Bisalla, is among the 21 persons that died in Wednesday’s bomb blast in Abuja. Bisalla, who...
Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War David Killingray Woodbridge, James Currey, 2010, ISBN: 9781847010155; 272pp.; Price: £45.00 Reviewer: Dr Daniel Owen...
The Lagos State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has described the late Kudirat Abiola as a heroine of democracy whose contributions to Nigeria’s...