La Herradura – music off the wall
Some of you who know me may have seen my ‘business’ card, which under my name says “London – Lagos – La Herradura”. The first two are self-explanatory: the third requires some explanation. When our father died, coinciding with her retirement, my sister...
Meeting Kingsley ‘The Immigrant’
So, I had just arrived back from a visit to Kano. It was about 9 pm on a muggy Lagos evening at the domestic terminal of Murtala Mohammed Airport and to spare my travelling colleagues the frustration of a detour into the Friday Victoria Island traffic I agreed...
My first experience of being Trolled.
I cannot say I am a major player on twitter. I don’t initiate much and I still only have around 1,300 Followers but I am prone to the occasional sudden burst of activity. About two years ago I gained some insight into the problems faced by people of colour,...About
Keith Richards
A book. A Column, Another book. A blog. There is too much racism, injustice, environmental damage, hypocrisy and the like out there to stay silent. So I am not going to. Because I can – and I care enough to want to.
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Outsider Inside.
Having harboured a desire to write for half a lifetime, BusinessDay gave me the opportunity with a weekly column. In 2007 these comments on Nigerian business, politics and society were collected and published. Many of them are as relevant to day as they were then.
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