“Democracy is indeed a journey, and Nigerians will actually think that on this journey, Holland is moving a bit too fast. In Nigeria, we do not have a Party to protect human beings yet—not to talk of animals.”

For the past three months, Nigerian scholar Ayobami Ojebode has been casting a critical and often humorous African eye on Dutch politics and society, but also on developments in Africa.

Read the blog he kept while pursuing academic research as a fellow at the African Studies Centre in Leiden. His most recent posting is about media muzzling in Uganda, a “prelude to darkness” in his view.

Ayobami teaches development communication at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.  His academic work in the Netherlands focused on “guerrilla journalists” who were driven underground by Nigeria’s military regimes. He says many of them are now disillusioned with current politics in their country.

He will return to his teaching position in Nigeria at the end of March. We look forward to his final reflection on Dutch society and politics.