Sam Omatseye

Sam’s prophetic muse – Tracking Jagaban’s rise to power

Apart from being a strategy against defective memory, diary-keeping is an extraordinary tool in literary…

Gazelle versus Naija

By Sam Omatseye This has nothing to do with the slugfest in Ivory Coast, where…

Peter Obi’s Men, Threatening My Life- Omatseye

Omatseye posted the following message on his Facebook page: “Mr Peter Obi, call your followers…

The Bazaar

It is the way of the race. Just as Apostle Paul says, all run but…

The Ballad of Bourdillon

By Sam Omatseye They say he is sick. Yet he is the one showing a…

B. Willy turns 70

By Sam Omatseye Soyinka was the subject, the lecturer was also the subject. The work…

Two priests, one saint

Two priests, one saint By Sam Omatseye The two men do not belong in the…

Sam Omatseye: 60 gun-salute to the literary General

  By Louis Odion, FNGE Back in the 90s, we used to time each of…

Disinvited

By Sam Omatseye THIS is not the time to hold grudges against Malam Nasir El-Rufai.…

Interpreting our unfolding times

By Kunle Ajibade Sam Omatseye’s A Chronicle Foretold is an illuminating collection of 77 pieces…