A favourite statement among my con­temporaries at the University of Be­nin in the heady 1990s was “history will absolve me” attributed to Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader. We were ...

You cannot quarrel about how a man tells his story. It is his business. However, the pseudo-autobiography of the former ...

Moonless and mournful, the serene night was pierced by the hoots of an owl perching atop HillTop coven owned by the sad and sadistic Old Soja called Aibibi. In the bowel of his coven, the retired ...

I started reading ex-Head of State Ibrahim Babangida’s recent memoirs, aiming to look for the moment in the narration that gives an inkling into his becoming a tyrant.

Opinion - A Journey in Service is a long, tortuous journey to penitence, which arrives at its destination, if it does at all, leaving its memory behind.

The truth has a way of emerging. General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), Nigeria’s self-styled “evil genius” and master ...

In "On Writing," Stephen King said honesty is necessary for good writing. Babangida’s pseudo-memoir fails that test.