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Gimba Kakanda hits back at Muhammed Mahmud: You are a sophisticated illiterate

by Gimba Kakanda I think you have just made it into the Guinness Book of Records as "the most sophisticated illiterate ever identified in the history of public discourse" Dear…

10 years

Muhammed Mahmud fires at Gimba Kakanda: You are confused, inhumane and disturbed

by Muhammed Mahmud Second, this very piece exposed your inhumanity as you seek to distort the real and actual bone of contention between the oppressor (Jewish Occupiers) and the oppressed…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda writes | Why I will never stand for Gaza simply because I am a Muslim

by Gimba Kakanda You even said that no atrocity is more than that going on in Gaza, and I ask: is there an experience worse than having minors abducted, savagely…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: David Umaru – The last man standing in Niger state

by Gimba Kakanda The coming of Barrister David Umaru ended this tradition of short-lived popular opposition forces and, especially, emergency governorship contenders who come, vie and disappear or sell out.…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: Ekiti epiphany – The price of victory must not be mere bags of rice

by Gimba Kakanda We must quit thinking that “third-world” politics is all about writing “deep” articles, composing tweets and writing profound Facebook posts and screaming ourselves hoarse about how things…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: A letter to HRH Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

by Gimba Kakanda As a mentee of dead philosophers, you really don’t need to be told to not react to their attempts to desecrate your office. Be the victim, not…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: A letter to critics of #BringBackOurGirls campaign

by Gimba Kakanda It is this same activism you consider as “elitist” that inspired Michelle Obama to hold up a placard in solidarity with rattled Nigerians. It’s the same activism…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: A unity of classes at Abuja’s #BringBackOurGirls campaign

by Gimba Kakanda The disunity of classes at Unity Fountain was a part materialisation of Comrade Melaye’s prophecy, and I was sure he understood that he’s overripe, being extravagantly “wealthy”,…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: Femi Fani-Kayode – The hate preacher and his imaginary audience

by Gimba Kakanda Possessed by his characteristic bigotry, Mr Fani-Kayode, in disparaging the north and its intolerable terrorists does not admit that of the three Nigerian-born terrorists overseas, caught in…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: Of conspiracy theories and denials

by Gimba Kakanda If you have joined our deception-gathering agents, whose operations are everything but secret, the Nigerian secret police, in living in denial of Shekau’s actual existence as shared…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: Finally, our deaths will be televised

by Gimba Kakanda So spare me the history lecture, I don't mind having this godforsaken country colonised again, with every damned institution under a racist Conrad, every school under an…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: Nyako may have won the 2015 elections for Jonathan

by Gimba Kakanda If you think GEJ is not electable, especially with this twist of 'politicized activisms', that's because you don't know Nigeria beyond Facebook and Twitter. May God save…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: Nigeria’s (in)security situation and your human worth

by Gimba Kakanda But this vile politics is not commendable at all, outrightly uncharitable in a country where condolences have become as common as hellos. In a real country, Olisa…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: On Soyinka Vs the Abachas – A letter to Gymber Cacandah

by Gimba Kakanda Of course, I love that I’m being threatened, because I’ll gladly sensationalise that to fast-track my asylum application. Dear Mr. Gymber Cacandah, I have to write this,…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: In defence of Sani Abacha’s son, Sadiq

by Gimba Kakanda I love how Sadiq deconstructed your Soyinka, an overrated professor who has no PhD. Shame. Our friend, a certified ajebota, Salihu Dasuki Nakande got his PhD at…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: Abuja protests and ‘briefcase’ activism on social media

by Gimba Kakanda But the funny thing about these Abuja-based activists on Twitter is, when you call them and inform them that a certain ambassador or politician wants to have…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: Let me tell you how Nigeria works

by Gimba Kakanda This is the reason I’m yet to forgive Mallam Nasir El-Rufai’s embarrassing masturbations in his terribly written memoirs. For a man who, before opportunism favoured and attracted…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: What do Nigerians really want in 2015?

by Gimba Kakanda If we want to practise democracy, we have to be democratic. How do we expect credible leaders when all we do is criticise without taking part? And…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: Make no mistakes, #GenVoices is not #OccupyNigeria

by Gimba Kakanda So GenVoices is to end that tradition that reduces the youths to mere aides. We deserve more, more presence as substantial and influential leaders, not as adjunct…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: FCT Abuja ‘Park N Pay’ policy is simply a cheap fraud

by Gimba Kakanda I don’t like Lagos, this you need to know, which is why I endorse timely traffic regulation systems that may protect us from disorganised population growth likely…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: What you should know about Gov. Aliyu

by Gimba Kakanda As 2015 approaches, Governor Aliyu's political future is on the edge of a cliff. First, his senatorial ambition will be mortally shattered by the Gbagyi voters…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: An open letter to the Nigerian politician

by Gimba Kakanda Go out there and meet the actual people: the okada riders, cabbies, market women, hawkers, grocers, senior citizens and even drug abusing youth and destitute beggars to…

10 years

Gimba Kakanda: Forget it, you can NOT change Nigeria!

by Gimba Kakanda Bring Barack Obama to Nigeria, and he will turn into Goodluck Jonathan II in less than a year. I give you my words. Our institutional collapse and…

11 years

Opinion: Black Africa – This earth, my people

by Gimba Kikanda Islam is increasingly being used by many groups of perverts to hurt the conscience of humanity. And the ongoing sparks of terrorism around us are justifications of…

11 years

Gimba Kakanda: The hypocrisy called Imperialism

by Gimba Kakanda But we’re still a people struggling to break through the wall that separates our primordial sentiments from our actual brains. We refuse to demolish the wall in…

11 years

Gimba Kakanda: The true meaning of African culture

by Gimba Kakanda The worse contradictions were the reactions of some Igbo Christians to the recent conversion of an Igbo monarch to Islam, which to them was against the culture…

11 years

Opinion: For the PDP, this may finally be the end of the road

by Gimba Kakanda While the division was along a deepening conflict between President Goodluck Jonathan and various state governors, it became a repetition of an old drama with the involvement…

11 years

Opinion: Zaria – My encounter with depression

by Gimba Kakanda I compared that young and ambitious Maitama Sule to the defeated old and blind philosopher I saw in Zaria. And that was when, with tears in my…

11 years

Opinion: Going berserk in Governor Kwankwaso’s Kano

By Gimba Kakanda .....Should Dantala, a farmer, be charged for the theft of, say, his Fulani tribesman Bamanga Tukur's son in the list? Should Adewale, a vulcaniser, be charged for…