One of my favourite scenes in Black Panther was right at the beginning. Erik Killmonger is in an English museum looking at all of the African history locked up behind glass panels. He begins to talk to the museum’s curator…
When we saw that #Endsars and #LekkiTollgate trending on social media, we braced ourselves for the worst on Saturday 13th February. An order by the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry planned to reopen Lekki Tollgate for the first time since…
I had been waiting to read this for a long time. Over the months we’ve been in lockdown, I’ve been buying a lot of books, but instead of reading them, I have been watching a lot of documentaries! Plus some…
For the past week the hashtags, #endsars #endsarsbrutality has been trending. What does it mean? SARS is The Special Anti Robbery Squad; it was founded in 1984. It was put into place to protect civilians from armed robbers. However, they…
Nigeria declared independence from British rule on 1st October 1960. This was something that wasn’t taught in school, but as we know English History is somewhat skewed. However Nigerian Independence is celebrated as a National Holiday in Nigeria and celebrated…
Before reading this, I had little knowledge of the Nigerian civil war. I only understood the brutality and the number of innocent people who had suffered over dark period of the countries history. The book was written from the side…
September 19th is officially ‘Talk like a Pirate Day’. Who comes up with this for real haha! I’m not going to talk like a pirate, however I will tell you about Black Caesar. The notorious pirate who terrorised the seven…
“I fear for young people because you do not know how strong is the bond of kinship. You do not know what it is to speak with one voice” This book is a classic. There are so many superlatives that…
When is a slave not a slave? When they are considered an apprentice! Around the 1830s, Great Britain had finally heard the campaigners and sided with the abolitionists. The government passed the bill to abolish slavery. SUCCESS! Some Brits understood…
