Taiwo Akinlami’s Blog
Taiwo AKINLAMI'S Blog
VITAL OBITER® “The Nation Is Bleeding” and the Spirit of Niemöller Echoes: From My Lord Spiritual to My Lord Temporal Permit me to open with the appropriate ceremony, for this is a matter of high protocol. On a Tuesday in this our season of discontent, the twenty-eighth of July, in the year of our Lord […] [Read More]
HOMILY FROM THE PEW On the Makindye prom and the difference between being watched and being watched over. I write this from the pew, not the pulpit. Some news reaches you differently there. This did. A school prom at Makindye Secondary School, Kampala, is on a viral voyage across Africa and beyond, enthusiastically reshared by […] [Read More]
Vital Obiter, from the Diary of a Roving Public Interest Counsel Peter Obi granted one interview on Channels, and at once the knives were out, inaccuracy, inaccuracy, roast him alive. Let me pause the excitement with a single question. Since when did an interview win or lose an election in Nigeria? Because if we are […] [Read More]
HomilyFromThePew “To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.”— Nelson Mandela Yesterday, July 18, was Mandela Day. It is not a day Mandela conferred on himself. It was a day conferred on him, not by any single person, but by […] [Read More]
#HomilyFromThePew Have you ever been the subject of an unprovoked campaign of calumny? A barrage of fabrications. Blatant, unrestrained lies told against your person, your work and your integrity. It is painful, especially when you know you have done what is right. More painful still when the lies are told in a place that ought […] [Read More]
HomilyFromThePew “The greatest evidence of true eldership is not that people obey you. It is that they can safely trust you.”— Taiwo AKINLAMI There are questions that arise from curiosity. There are others that arise from disappointment. Mine belongs to the latter. For quite some time now, one question has refused to leave me. Who […] [Read More]
When the Prince Adeniyi–Gbajabiamila saga broke, I had no intention of commenting, until I had a dream. I am not joking. I am not claiming clairvoyance, nor am I speaking figuratively. I literally had a dream. I have not suddenly joined the company of the prophets, like Saul among their sons. No, this dream is […] [Read More]
HomilyFromthePew There is a discipline I have developed over thirty years of frontline work. It is the discipline of looking beyond the surface; of thinking end to end; of refusing to be seduced by the announcement, and asking instead: where does this end? It is in that spirit that I wish to address a matter […] [Read More]
#HomilyFromThePew I was born on March 24, 1970. Not with a silver spoon. Not with a golden spoon. Not with any spoon at all. As I said yesterday on Sunny Irabor Live, I inherited nothing materially from my parents. No estate. No wealth. No influential name that opened doors ahead of me. What I inherited […] [Read More]
Mrs. Yinka Ogunde will be committed to the earth today. Today is also her birthday. She would have been 62. This morning, Facebook woke me up with a reminder: “Yinka Ogunde and 8 others have birthdays today. Help them celebrate!” Well, today, for me, it is a different kind of celebration from what Facebook envisaged. […] [Read More]
