BREAKING: America Asks World to โ€œPause Spinning,โ€ Citing โ€œMotion Sicknessโ€ from Sudden Stop by Lawson Akhigbe

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON D.C. โ€“ In a move that has left geophysicists, cartographers, and anyone who owns a globe profoundly confused, the United States of America has formally submitted a request to the United Nations, and by extension, the planet itself, to โ€œplease stop turning for a little while so we can get our …

Edward Said Saw the Future of Israel and Palestine by Amir-Hussein Radjy

How the literary theoristโ€™s life and work shed light on the epic failure of U.S. Middle East policy. Author Edward Said is pictured in Paris on Nov. 25, 1996. Ulf Andersen/Getty Images Radicalism is nothing more than understanding the root of a problem. Time and again, the late Palestinian and American thinker Edward Said struck at …

Wikeโ€™s Double-Shift: Governor of Rivers by Birth, FCT by Ambition

If Nigeria ever needed proof that hubris can be a full-time job, Nyesom Wike is walking evidence. The man is officially the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), but in practice, heโ€™s running two states like a Nollywood actor juggling wives in a polygamy comedy. One minute, heโ€™s in Abuja paving roads and chasing …

If Godswill Akpabio Is the Answer, What Was the Question? By Lawson Akhigbe

๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ’ฅ A Satirical Investigation into Nigeriaโ€™s Most Elastic Politician Have you ever played the game where someone shouts an answer, and you have to guess the question? Well, in Nigerian politics, one name keeps popping up as the answer to almost everything. That name is Godswill Akpabio โ€“ Senate President, former governor, minister, and now …

Black womenโ€™s hair products are killing us. Why isnโ€™t more being done? By Tayo Bero

The hair, the hair, look up, itโ€™s the hair Black women who use lye-based hair relaxers at least seven times a year for 15 or more years have a 30% increased risk of breast cancer A new study reveals what some scientists and researchers have suspected for years โ€“ that frequent and long-term use of lye-based hair …