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19January 13, 2010
Why we are no Longer at Ease

Let us dream a simple dream made fantastic by our present circumstances. Let us dream of a Nigeria that works, that evokes pride, and that inspires faith. Let us dream of a Nigeria of servant-leaders and sacrificial statesmen, a Nigeria which calls the best characteristics out of ordinary men and women. Let us call on that capacity for renewal to bring opportunity out of this crisis.

Let us recreate the excitement – and the possibilities – with which we approached the Independence Day of 1960
2January 17, 2012
Return to Brunei: The London Launch of The Ghost of Sani Abacha.

What continues to excite me is the totally unpredictable consequences of opening up a book in public.
2January 16, 2012
This Land is Mine

(and you can take this how you will, but) these double-breasted hills, bronze fields of windblown corn, this scarpland north of Udi Hills, these are my mother’s arms & the…
3January 9, 2012
The Ghost of Sani Abacha haunts Nigeria’s General Strike

Today, we exorcise the national demons that convert our elected servants into Pharaohs whose careers are dedicated to the building of personal monuments from the very commonwealth
19January 4, 2012
Dear President Jonathan

It is decision time, Mr. President. Good luck.
9November 21, 2011
Maryam, on Magnus

And that’s the other thing: somebody will come to your house with one packet of orange juice and drink two bottles of beer before he goes…
20November 16, 2011
Letter to a Young Wife, from an Old

Besides, all your married friends have horror tales of their own, and it is in bad taste to complain to a doctor about your pimple, when he is sitting on an elephantiasis of the scrotum.
5November 7, 2011
The Ramselling Truthangel of Zambaputu

Wherefore this travesty, this hypocrisy, whereby the big thief sentences the small thief while other thieves applaud?
6September 30, 2011
Infusion 20 & The Mystery of the Good Reading

The secret of a reading is that it is NOT about the reading. The reader can read a writer’s work more effectively in private. More cheaply too.