Olumide OlaniyanAward-winning prose, You’re not a country, Africa, by the late Pius Adesanmi was first published in 2011. This book, which is a collection of essays, won the maiden Penguin Prize for African Writing in the nonfiction category. It is peopled by black Africans with different cultures, languages, beliefs, histories, food, diseases, philosophies, and even systems of worship. Recall memos had to be manually scripted in the old days, there were no computers and photocopiers to ease business. The recent opposition to and condemnation of the establishment of the Western Nigeria Security Network code-named Operation Amotekun reaffirmed the unneeded desire to control the people and states in Nigeria by the Federal Government, even to the well-being of Nigerians.

Source: Punch January 29, 2020 01:52 UTC