By Toyin Falola By devoting its fourth conference to “Humanities in the Digital Age,” Northwest University, Kano, is right on ...

The Advocacy for Alleged Witches, in collaboration with the Ministry for Gender and Women Affairs, is sponsoring a medical examination of the woman accused and abused for witchcraft in Enugu, southern ...

The city of Kisumu witnessed the residency of intellectual elephants for three days, September 21-23, welcomed by H.E. Professor Peter Anyang Nyong’o, the Governor of Kisumu City County. The ...

ABUBAKAR: The forthcoming general elections will be war! DELE: Hmmmmm! War inna Babylon said Bob Marley! Prophet of doom! ABU: I beg your pardon! EJINE: Alhaji, you are not saying anything new.

and every object still remembers. The cup remembers the mouth. The pillow remembers the head. The doorway remembers footsteps. Only the living are commanded to forget.

Five months after the Central Bank of Nigeria’s banking recapitalisation window closed, Nigerians are justified in asking an uncomfortable question, which is, what exactly did the N4.65 trillion ...

We had been bending so long that our children thought that the human body was meant to have a curved back. We had whispered so long that silence became our inheritance, passed from grandmother to ...

Civilizations are partly judged by their epistemic constructions and the empires that they built, but also by how they have attempted to unravel the mysteries of how the universe works. There is no ...

In this piece, I am interested in distilling the consequences, in economic and governance terms, of what investing in public service institutional reform would mean for the Nigerian government, going ...

From a general observation, comparisons are powerful political tools. They simplify complex realities, inspire supporters and shape public perception. Another side of this is that they can also become ...

Toyin Falola’s Feminism, Africanism, and Globalism (Carolina Academic Press, 2026) enters continuing debates about the relevance of humanities thinking in the contemporary moment. Rather than pursue ...

Renowned Professor of History Toyin Falola has published a new book with the title Ifá Priestcraft: Ifáyemí Elébuìbon And Yorùbá Ancestral Knowledge Systems. The 420-page book was published by the ...