Top of the news that has trended in the last few days is the “dirty slap”, as they call it, that Seun Kuti gave a policeman in uniform last Saturday. Seun is the son of the iconoclast and Afrobeat king, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. The event leaves much to be desired on many fronts. If it is true that it was Seun …

I read the headlines of the story of a woman who was allegedly murdered together with her children. The horror was said to have happened somewhere in the eastern part of the country but I never really read the story. The past few weeks have been hectic for me and I have been “behind the news”. So you can imagine …