David Hundeyin

On April 15, 2020, a convoy of vehicles pulled into the Government House of Kaduna state in Badiko, Kaduna. Among the convoy were several pickup trucks and an 8-wheeler lorry loaded to the…

Approximately 40 years ago, two French cinema directors Jean-Jacques Flori and Stéphane Tchalgadjieff arrived in Lagos where they spent several weeks interviewing and shadowing Africa’s…

Good day, Benjamin. You are probably used to being referred to as “Honourable Kalu,” but unfortunately I have never been one for using honorific descriptors when engaging with elected…

In 1847, a young Hungarian medical doctor called Ignaz Semmelweiss started a new job in Austria as a Director at Vienna General Hospital’s obstetrics clinic. One of the first things he…

Last night, President Muhammadu Buhari announced a 14-day extension to the lockdown that has brought Nigeria’s economy to a halt for the past two weeks. My position on the subject of…

There is a sculpture in my hometown that I am not fond of. If you walk through Marina Road in Badagry, you might catch a glimpse of a green human-sized sculpture in the unmistakable form of…

Back in the 1990s while growing up in my parents’ house, we had a gateman called Fatai whom I found very interesting, to their noticeable disapproval. Fatai was seemingly the antithesis of…

A few days ago while I was on my way to Victoria Island to record a show at SmoothFM, I came across a signpost on Adeola Odeku Street. It was apparently a coronavirus advisory notice,…

When I wrote in last week's column about the need for Africa to develop a new internal trade strategy to protect itself from the rise of global right-wing populism, I had a specific set of…

One random evening in November 2008, I was on my way to get my dinner when a lady who was distributing flyers accosted me. The flyers in question were apparently protesting a planned…