By Olukorede Yishau THE LAST sentence of Bolaji Abdullahi’s memoir, ‘The Loyalist’, is one of the most thoughtful I have ever read: “Some relationships can only be saved through an amicable divorce.” Several moments in this book are remarkable in their exposition of betrayals, power and patronage. The book shows that when lo...
By Olukorede Yishau MY DEAR country Nigeria faces evolving security threats: banditry, cybercrime, urban kidnapping, and community conflicts driven by economic distress. These are not challenges that require a strong police chief. They require a trusted one. And, in recent years, Tunji Disu has come off almost all his assignments in sparkling...
By Olukorede Yishau I did not stumble on The Insight the way many people discover good journalism these days. It was not through a loud advertisement or a breaking news alert, but through an almost quiet recommendation that arrived via WhatsApp. I clicked. I stayed. And I understood, almost immediately, why Adejuwon Soyinka, a former [&hellip...
By Olukorede Yishau OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE, the brilliant mind behind the Booker-nominated ‘My Sister the Serial Killer’, has delivered a sophomore novel, ‘Cursed Daughters’. Her new baby packs a punch. It is no surprise it made the Time 100 Books for 2025, the year that has just slipped by. Braithwaite offers us a novel ...
By Olukorede Yishau I WRITE this from America; a country I have now called my place of residence for about four years. But distance has not diluted identity. If anything, it has sharpened it. Living abroad has a way of clarifying who you are and where your emotional compass points. For me, no matter how […]
By Olukorede Yishau I LOST a father figure on December 19. Many knew him less by his given name than by the name of his life’s work—MicCom—a neat coinage drawn from Michael and Comfort, the English names he and his first wife bore. In that fusion of names sat the story of a marriage, a […]
By Olukorede Yishau I DID not expect a game show to tug at something deep in me. Yet the first time I watched Masoyinbo on YouTube, I felt a small stirring. It came from the sound of Yoruba spoken without hesitation; spoken with a confidence I had not heard in years. The programme created by […]
By Olukorede Yishau SHE WAS only fifteen. Her best friend was Moniba, and she had imagined many more years of easy companionship with this special being she could talk to from morning till night without ever feeling bored. But this friendship, and indeed their future, came under a grave threat. The Taliban had invaded their […]
By Olukorede Yishau FOREIGN INTERVENTION has never been the cure for internal troubles. Lest we forget, every time powerful nations have marched into weaker ones with promises of salvation, the outcome has been heartbreak, not healing. Somalia learnt this bitter lesson in the early 1990s when American troops landed to restore peace but left b...
By Olukorede Yishau THEY ARE called immigrants, especially when the Third World is their origin. If they happen to be from the West and find a livelihood in the Third World, then the label changes. The same persons are now called expatriates. Geography and skin colour transform perception. One is seen as coming to offer […]
