Wole Akinyosoye

Dec 8, 2024 | jimidisu.com | Wole Akinyosoye |NextInfant Mortality |Afolabi Gambari |Omoniyi Osadare

The reception is a box-like building encased in neat glass panels. This afternoon, shadows from surrounding trees reflected on the panels, and you could see their foliage flailing in the wind’s caress. “Kigali Genocide Memorial,” expressed in simple white calligraphy, welcomes visitors to the sombre ambience. The signage also says that this Memorial is for “Remembrance and Learning. “The slim guide explained why the story of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda meant the world to him.

Dec 8, 2024 | jimidisu.com | Wole Akinyosoye |Omoniyi Osadare

Paul Anyebe was a judge of the high court of Benue state in north-central Nigeria who had a young son with sticky fingers and a sense of adventure It was his role as a dad that endangered his job as a judge. One night around 1983, Anyebe caught his son attempting to steal from his bedroom. In response, Anyebe pulled his gun in an effort to scare the boy. The gun went off, discharging a bullet which hit and seriously injured the boy.

Dec 8, 2024 | jimidisu.com | Wole Akinyosoye |NextBetween Farotimi |Festus Adedayo |Between Farotimi

The 45-year-old sprawling University of Calabar Teaching Hospital complex is in dire need of a face-lift, except that this seems the concern of a first-time visitor that kept thinking of why the complex should be refurbished, even if for the sake of attraction. But the non-stop activity at the sick baby unit belied the somewhat depleting structure.

Dec 8, 2024 | thecable.ng | Wole Akinyosoye

The reception is a box-like building encased in neat glass panels. This afternoon, shadows from surrounding trees reflected on the panels, and you could see their foliage flailing in the wind’s caress. “Kigali Genocide Memorial,” expressed in simple white calligraphy, welcomes visitors to the sombre ambience. The signage also says that this Memorial is for “Remembrance and Learning. “The slim guide explained why the story of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda meant the world to him.

Aug 26, 2024 | thecable.ng | Wole Akinyosoye |Simon Kolawole

This morning, I woke up to the UK Guardian and the eulogy by Kenan Malik on James Baldwin, a black American, writer and thinker of great intellect. Bruce Malogo had hoisted the Malik piece on the Oeuvre platform, a book club of diverse palettes to which we both subscribe, with Fred Ohwahwa, Eniola Olakunrin, Wale Fatade, Chukwuma Nwokoh et al.