LOUD WHISPERS: DigitAll
I have just returned from this year’s United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York. CSW is an annual gathering at the UN where member States and civil society organisations review progress made on implementing the 1995 UN Beijing Platform for Action. I started attending CSW in 1993, as a young […]
LOUD WHISPERS: Election Fever
Who needs any of the ‘Woods’? Hollywood, Bollywood, Nollywood, Kannywood, Yollywood They have nothing on election time in Naija Prime entertainment Even when it is not funny it is funny Even when it is bad you say ‘it could be worse’ None of the ‘Woods’ in the world matched the starring cast The Big Daddy […]
LOUD WHISPERS: That Time of The Year
It happens every January. I have what feels like a ton of bricks weighing me down, and sometimes when I wake up, I feel as if I have been sleeping under a trailer. As the month draws to an end, the feeling starts to lift, but it never totally disappears, till the next year comes. […]
LOUD WHISPERS: Valentine’s Day
Tammy frowned as she looked at herself in the mirror. She thought about all the feel good, motivational sound bites she and her friends often repeated to support one another. ‘You are beautiful’. ‘The only opinion that matters is yours’. ‘Own your body’. ‘Look in the mirror and love what you see’. Well, she was […]
LOUD WHISPERS: Professor Bolanle Awe at 90
In August 1986, I was a postgraduate student at the History department, University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University). The department organised an international colloquium to mark the centenary of the end of the Ekiti Parapo Wars which raged for almost 70 years and ended in 1886. I found all the sessions very interesting, but […]
LOUD WHISPERS: Pease Help Us Beg Them
Please help us beg them I am a card-carrying member of my political party I will vote APC with my full chest in the next elections I will vote for all the candidates of my party I know others will make their own choices too Please help us beg them The big men and women […]
LOUD WHISPERS: Lessons From Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’
In 2018, Prince Harry Windsor married Ms Meghan Markle, a divorced, African-American actress, in a moving and colourful ceremony with every member of the British royal family in attendance. Prior to the wedding, the British and international media had of course gone into a frenzy of speculation over the ‘unusual choice’ for a royal bride, […]
LOUD WHISPERS: Magun
Happy New Year! Only a few days have gone by in this new year and it already feels like weeks. Just as we were trying to get over the end of year stress, we heard the news of an alleged Native Doctor in Ikere-Ekiti who passed away after an entanglement with someone’s wife. Word on […]
LOUD WHISPERS: Be Better. Do Better
Compliments of the season. In spite of the many hassles of putting the ‘logistics’ (money, food, gifts and so on) in place for Christmas in the community, I like being at home in Isan-Ekiti during the festive season. Amongst other things, it gives me an opportunity to eat pounded yam at last twice in one […]
LOUD WHISPERS: Please Stop!
Please stop! I just saw a five-year-old girl dancing at her birthday party on a thick carpet of dollars and Naira Please stop! That was after seeing the little boy of no more than four, wearing a ‘Billion Dollar Gang’ neck chain, swigging from what looked like a bottle of beer while his mother twerked […]
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