David Hundeyin

Before I get started, I must first of all clarify that this is not an “Africa Rising” article. As I am sure we have all figured out by now, the entire ‘Africa Rising’ narrative was a castle…

In October 2010, I attended a Europa League football match at the City of Manchester Stadium (now known as the Etihad Stadium) between Manchester City and Polish side Lech Poznan. This was a…

Ghanaian professor and philosopher John Ayittey has a colourful set of descriptors he regularly uses to describe African heads of state who run their countries like personal fiefdoms.…

Once upon a time in the vassal kingdom of Cross River, there lived three men named Prince, Tortoise and Tech Bro. Prince was the vassal king, tasked with bringing the kingdom’s 3.7 million…

In the 90s, a magazine called TELL became the medium of record for all that went on during General Sani Abacha's five horrible years. The travails of the intrepid journalists and writers who…

Anyone who regularly travels around Nigeria should be familiar with the feeling of relief that comes with landing at Murtala Mohammed Airport and taking their phone out of flight mode to see…

A regular riposte to the ideas expressed in this column is that they merely expose problems or provide commentaries, as against “provide solutions.” Putting aside the irony of responding to…

In 2014, I was a regular on a construction forum website called Skyscrapercity.com. The Nigerian section on the site had a busy political discussion board where fellow regulars would…

In 2017, former Minister of Agriculture Audu Ogbeh sent off a container full of yam for export. As the world’s largest yam producer with over 70 percent of global production, it only made…

At the ripe old age of 11, when people are typically most concerned with videogames, action figures and the onset of pubescence, I had a different set of, externally enforced, concerns. Born…