Forbes blogger Mfonobong Nshe has been monitoring the excessive wealth aquisitions of some of Nigeria’s multi-millionaire evangelical church leaders: After the blog post I wrote in May about Nigerian pastors owning private jets, I was bombarded with emails from readers requesting to know the richest pastors in Nigeria. So I set out to investigate the [...]
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Pastors and Private Jets….
Posted in Corruption, Current events, Politics, Poverty, Religion, tagged Mfonobong Nshe, Nigeria on June 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yorùbá
Posted in Beliefs, History, People, tagged Nigeria, Yorùbá on May 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the traditional Yorùbá religions of Nigeria all human beings attempt to reach their spiritual destiny and become one with the creator spirit Olòrún. Prayer, which is spoken out loud, produces the sensation of joy: Aboru, Aboye, Aboshishe ~ may our prayers reach heaven and be granted. There are various regional and tribal deities associated with Yorùbá culture, and [...]
Some Things Come Together in Nigeria
Posted in Books, Current events, Organisations, People, tagged Chinua Achebe, Nigeria on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of Africa’s foremost writers Professor Chinua Achebe travelled from his US home to his Nigerian homeland this week, accompanied by The Royal African Society’s director Richard Dowden who helped film a movie of the return and writes in a BBC article today: He has lived in America since he suffered a terrible car accident in [...]
