Are Nigerian Artists today making music worth covering? by Rotimi Fawole
Does it ever happen to you that you catch the last chorus of a song you haven’t heard since you were a child, and because of all the memories that accompany the song, you google it, wikipedia it,...
View ArticleNelson Mandela’s Musical Legacy by Rotimi Fawole @Texthelaw
How will I remember Nelson Mandela? It will be in the music that was made about him and his role in the struggle to smash apartheid. There are many reasons why. As a child of the 80s in Nigeria, we...
View ArticleProblem With Our Live Performances by Rotimi Fawole @TexTheLaw
When you buy or are given tickets to attend a concert, is your expectation merely to see musicians in the flesh or to hear them sing and watch them put on a show? Chances are that most people are...
View ArticleLimericks and Politics by Rotimi Fawole @TexTheLaw
It’s probably not intentional, but the limericks have veered, in a most determined fashion, into the theatre of politics since the turn of the year. Perhaps it’s the season the country is in, with all...
View ArticleThe Limericks Continue by Rotimi Fawole @TexTheLaw
1. We begin this week’s roundup with the goings-on in the People’s Democratic Party and statements from those who remain in the party, as well as those who have defected. The President, in a moment of...
View Article(IL)LITERACY IN LEADERSHIP by Rotimi Fawole @TexTheLaw
The Nigerian quest for leadership continues and, unfortunately for progressives, zoning and entitlement to others standing down so that a particular region can enjoy its turn to produce the next...
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The “DaLevie” Code by Rotimi Fawole @TexTheLaw
“Convert to Digital and then change the entire product.” That’s how my mind summarised it, anyway. That tweet from Aaron Levie is probably one of the most intriguing things I’ve read on Twitter. It...
View ArticleSoldiers of Fortune – A Review by Rotimi Fawole @TexTheLaw
I’m glad I bought a copy of Max Siollun’s Soldiers of Fortune. Many might say it merely rehashes a lot of information that was already in the public domain but I would strongly disagree. Even if that...
View ArticleFINDING A BALANCE IN LABEL-ARTIST CONTRACTS by Rotimi Fawole @TexTheLaw
Why aren’t our labels and their artists getting along? Virtually all major labels have had a public spat with an artist, leading many times to the artist attempting to leave without being released from...
View ArticleSanusi’s Suspension: Right or Wrong? by Rotimi Fawole @TexTheLaw
Better Days… Today, the 20th of February 2014, the President’s Spokesperson, Dr Reuben Abati, announced that President Jonathan had suspended Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Governor of the Central Bank of...
View ArticleThe “Chronmericks” of Stella by Rotimi Fawole @TexTheLaw
For about 5 months between 2013-14, former fundraiser for the presidential campaign of President Jonathan, and his erstwhile minister of aviation, Ms Stella Oduah, was under fire. The history of her...
View ArticleThe Past Few Weeks in Limericks by Rotimi Fawole @TexTheLaw
The Tribune reports a bizarre story, where students of a particular secondary school in Osun State, reacting to the governor’s pot-pourri revamp, all came to school wearing religious garb. Christians...
View ArticleComing to America and the Nollywood Igwe by Rotimi Fawole @TexTheLaw
It may be surprising, but I think that Coming to America may be having its greatest period of influence ever on African entertainment, 26 years after its release in 1988. On Nollywood, in particular....
View Article“Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day”; Who’s asking for Rome? by Rotimi Fawole @TexTheLaw
When the government recently announced the completion of (the refurbishment of) the Lagos-Kano rail line, the government’s own media people congratulated their principals and assured the rest of the...
View ArticleThe March RoundUp by Rotimi Fawole @TexTheLaw
We start our roundup this month with the most awesome thing about March – one celebrated one’s birthday and commemorated the occasion with a limerick: There once was a tweeter named Tex His specialty...
View ArticleThe LAGOS-LONDON Expressway Just Before France by Rotimi Fawole @TexTheLaw
Interesting things typically happen in transit on flights between London and Lagos. Here’s one of my own experiences. Once, a woman who’d probably got lost in the Terminal 5 Duty Free, and on account...
View ArticleThe Judgment Banning Tolling on the Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge by Rotimi Fawole...
On the 27th of March 2014, the Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, held that “there was no existing law in Lagos State, permitting the collection of toll on the newly constructed Lekki-Ikoyi...
View ArticleLIB: The Chronicles of Chill- Episode IV: (Me)Linda Gate(s) by Rotimi Fawole...
After the seasons of the Throne of Ekitilopia and the Tword of Prophet TRappatoni, came a festival of peace in the land of Twilistia and Social Mediana. Brother cleaved unto brother, sister unto sister...
View ArticleThe Night Buhari and Atiku ‘Ruined’ AGK’s 40th Birthday – by Rotimi Fawole...
Last night a few of us gathered to celebrate with our friend “AGK” who turned 40. Many happy returns to him. It started off congenially enough, with the perfunctory anecdotes, yabis, complaints about...
View ArticleCan Tambuwal Declare His Own Seat Vacant? by Rotimi Fawole @TexTheLaw
If, by some tragic stroke of misfortune, President Goodluck Jonathan, Vice-President Namadi Sambo and Senate President David Mark all died today, Aminu Tambuwal, Speaker of the Federal House of...
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