Adebisi Afolayan: mother-tongue-medium education icon- By Kehinde Yusuf

*Photo: Professor Adebisi Afolayan* February 21 every year is International Mother Language Day. A United Nations…

Tinubu, academics and professionals- By Kehinde Yusuf

*Photo: President Bola Tinubu * As nations begin to face seemingly intractable, essentially existential challenges, academics…

Female genital mutilation, By Kehinde Yusuf

*Photo: Prof Kehinde Yusuf* Tuesday, 6 February, 2024 was this year’s International Day of Zero Tolerance…

Remembering Sir Ahmadu Bello – By Kehinde Yusuf

*Photo: Sir Ahmadu Bello* There are people you wish never died, on account of the immense…

Marital renaming, cultural actors and cultural onlookers – By Kehinde Yusuf

*Photo: Prof Kehinde Yusuf* At the 54th Convocation Ceremonies of the University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, on…

2024 and the belly of the year – By Kehinde Yusuf

*Photo: Prof Kehinde Yusuf* One of the most striking and most memorable idioms I have heard…

Ivory towers and professors of practice-By Kehinde Yusuf

*Photo: Prof Yusuf Olaolu Ali SAN * *: Prof Kehinde Yusuf* Oxford Languages defines ‘ivory tower’…

Fubara and Politics 101 – By Kehinde Yusuf

*Photo: Prof Kehinde Yusuf * The Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, has just had his political…

2023: CONUA, Tinubu and Weah – By Kehinde Yusuf

*Photo: Prof Kehinde Yusuf * As 2023 comes to an end, a fitting tribute is to…

Wike and Khama; Fubara and Masisi – By Kehinde Yusuf

*Photo: Prof Kehinde Yusuf* In the mid-1970s, the Kenyan government claimed it was making progress on…