A Different Viewpoint
13 December 2025
Èniyàn l’aṣọ mi – The ‘Cubanic’ Moment When I woke up on the morning of 28 August 2021 and learnt that my dad had gone to be with his maker about 7 hours earlier in Nigeria, I knew that I had an enormous task on my hands. Over the next six weeks, as we planned…
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Understanding Nigeria’s Worsening Security Situation by Hon Rima Shawulu Kwewum, MFR in 2019 at a workshop. Simply put, a secured society is not necessarily one that has no challenges or problems. Security is not absence of threats. It is the ability of the state to ensure that people within its jurisdiction go about their daily…
Read More about Understanding Nigeria’s Worsening Security Situation by Hon Rima Shawulu Kwewum, MFR.Different Upbringing: Conversation with a 5-year-old. By Kunle Ojeleye Him: Dad, did you leave these socks on the floor? (Socks are his brother’s) Me: Are you asking me? (In a typical Yoruba fashion of ‘se emi lo nbi le’re?’) Him: Dad, I just asked you. Me: (Quickly realising Yoruba retort would not work with this…
Read More about Different Upbringing: Conversation with a 5-year-old.Pata Olokun: A Lesson in Godly Contentment. by Kunle Ojeleye 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚. 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟖. I was in Form 2. I got placement in the boarding house. During one of the vacations, I went to my Dad asking for money to buy boxer shorts. My father asked what was wrong with the stringed briefs, “pata olokun”, that I…
Read More about Pata Olokun: A Lesson in Godly Contentment.No Age Limit To Achieving Your Aspirations. by Kunle Ojeleye My father is one of the first set of students of the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ife. Because of life’s curveballs, a man whose secondary and advanced level education were fully funded by government scholarship based on academic prowess, ended up doing…
Read More about No Age Limit To Achieving Your Aspirations.In Remembrance: Daddy Abraham Iyanda Adegoke Oyedeji 1932-2011 by Kunle Ojeleye Ilẹ njẹ eniyan. Ten years ago, the earthly remain of one of my fathers began its journey to the final resting place. Since then, I have held on to the great lessons in humility, warmth and love that I learnt from him within the…
Read More about In Remembrance: Daddy Abraham Iyanda Adegoke Oyedeji 1932-2011Celebrating My Uncle and Aunt by Kunle Ojeleye It was 1988. Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife students had an unforgettable altercation with the federal government. As a result, the university was shut down for 3 months. By the time we were allowed to resume studies, our originally scheduled final examination dates had passed and we were…
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Random Musing
Two days ago, I took my children to school. I parked behind a line of vehicles and opened the door for the boys to step out onto the kerb. As the boys came out of the car, a white girl that had gotten out of a large black truck four vehicles away called my older…
Read More about How They Breed Racism in The ChildrenMatters Arising. by Kunle Ojeleye (1) I have argued here that using climate change to justify the destructive and violent tendencies of the Fulani herdsmen does not cut it with me. When I took my position, some thought it was out of ignorance. What they did not know is that I’ve been studying climate change…
Read More about Matters Arising𝗔 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗕𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗴𝗯𝗼𝗵𝗼 𝗜𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝘀. 𝘉𝘺 𝘒𝘶𝘯𝘭𝘦 𝘖𝘫𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘺𝘦 Thirty-five years ago, it was a very rural neighbourhood. Houses were few. Many of the family compounds were on massive grounds with well-cultivated gardens, orchards and significant parts utilised for cultivating cash crops. Unoccupied plots in the neighbourhood…
Read More about 𝗔 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗕𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗴𝗯𝗼𝗵𝗼 𝗜𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝘀.