The Calabash and the Ballot Box
Nigeria does not need to choose between democracy and dictatorship. It needs to remember that it once had something else. In old Ọ̀yọ́, the most powerful man in the empire could be removed with a gift. When the Aláàfin abused his office, the council of the Ọ̀yọ́ Mèsì did not raise an army or rig a vote. They sent him […]