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“The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership…. The Nigerian Problem is the unwillingness or liability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility; to the challenge of…
One of the most important things I have had to do as a young Nigerian is to unlearn. Nigeria, my birth country, has a very flawed notion of the things that…
LAGOS in the 19th century was as capitalist as it was feudal. Perhaps understated, but the authority of the monarchial institution in which Lagos (and most of Yorubaland) was governed through kings,…
If Fela were alive, I would tell him yanga found that trouble had died in his sleep. In Adolphe Thiers’ book, Histoire de la Révolution française — History of the French Revolution,…
There is a common belief that Entrepreneurship is the key to economic growth in developing countries. Personally, this belief was particularly reinforced during my days as a Nigerian National Youth Service Corps…
On a warm summer day in July 1900, a group of people of African descent gathered from all over the world for a conference in Westminster Town Hall, London. The aim of…
Welcome to The PalmWine Writer website. This website was created with the aim of providing a space for critical thinking and ideas created by the next generation of writers. The PalmWine Writer…