Chris Anyokwu

Praisesong for Ben (3)

By Chris Anyokwu, Not since he was a strapping teenager has he run like he…

Praisesong for Ben (2)

By Chris Anyokwu, Sundays are usually sunny and today is no different.  The late afternoon…

Praisesong for Ben

  By Chris Anyokwu They call him Ben.  Others prefer to call him Bernard.  Sometimes…

Creativity from Chaos: The Nigerian Scene

By Chris Anyokwu If the Hebrew account of Genesis is to be believed, we are…

Football: The People’s Opium

By Chris Anyokwu Karl Marx once famously declared that “religion is the opiate (or opium)…

Hurray for Malaria Vaccine!

  By Chris Anyokwu We all love music, don’t we?  But not the whine of…

Analysis: Discrimination and the Mind War

By Chris Anyokwu The “Black Lives Matter” movement might have brought to the fore the…

Is “African” Time really a bad thing?

  By Chris Anyokwu When people want to poke fun at us, Africans, one of…

Professor Adebayo Williams at 70

By Chris Anyokwu, Yesterday September 9, 2021 Professor Adebayo Williams turned 70.  How he has…

Truth, Ethnic Politics and Media Commentariat

By Chris Anyokwu In 2018, Michiko Kakutani published a most timely book entitled The Death…