Arts & Books

The Fortress of Delusion: Satire, Power and Self-Deception

By Enam Obiosio Uzor Maxim Uzoatu’s ‘White Men Can’t Write’ is not merely a short story. It is a political fable disguised as absurdist comedy,...

June 17 Is Achebe Day Because Of ‘Things Fall Apart’

On Tuesday, June 17, 1958, Things Fall Apart was published in England. The book has over the years become a standout phenomenon as one of...

Fighting With Writing

Viral Poems by Sunny Ayewanu; Bookdoctors Ventures Publishing, Lagos, Nigeria; 2025; 109pp Some people fight with guns, some others fight with the bomb, but the...

Dissecting The Heart Of The Land

Footnotes For A Nativeland by Emman Usman Shehu; Topaz Books, Abuja, Nigeria; 2026; 120pp He is in the top ranks of potent voices that have...

EU Ambassador Mignot Visits Awka Museum

The European Union (EU) Ambassador to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Mr  Gautier Mignot paid an august to the...

Recalling The Wild, Wild West Days

It is very obvious that our politicians have learnt nothing and forgotten nothing from the sordid past of the country. Given the controversies being promoted...

The Soludo Template

The Audacity To Transform: A First Row Testimony On The Ongoing Development In Anambra By Gov. Chukwuma Charles Soludo’s Administration by Anselm C. Onuorah,...

Parresia Books: Reason To Believe In Nigeria’s Literary Future

The Lagos scene is where books happen - as per the written word having multiform events being organized for seasons on end. I’ve been many...

A Poetic Evening With James Eze

The legendary poet W.H. Auden famously wrote that “poetry makes nothing happen”, but the great man would have written differently if he had been...

The Great African Survival

Riding The Storm: The Untold Story of Africa’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic by Toni Kan; Narrative Landscape Press, Lagos, Nigeria; 2024; 246pp The unforeseen...

Furious Passage Through West Africa

Some writers take no prisoners with their verbs and nouns. Adewale Maja-Pearce, author of the new book, Shine Your Eye - In Search of...

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The 'single story' of a people, by the people

Sieving through pages of history, it is quite easy to note that one of the banes of the Nigerian society is the peculiar inflexibility or outright lack of will to take advantage of available socio-economic opportunities towards entrenching a saner socio-economic and political state of affairs...

Ambode needs Oshodi

Reports reaching us from my Lagos is clear and...

Of Physics, Economic Growth and National Development

I recall that in his Inaugural Lecture in 1973,...

Bola Ige: A Personal Remembrance

The cream of Nigeria’s political and intellectual class had gathered to do honour to their own, when a message came from the SSS...The book launch could not be allowed to go on...

How the Nigerian Government can Prevent Future Protests from Turning Violent

In October, 2020, Nigerian youths stormed the streets of...

On Sule Lamido’s Lament Over PDP

Sule Lamido, remember him? He is the voluble, you...

The Thin Lines

As long as the unpredictability of the counting of time remains, the lines permeating the realms of joy from sorrow, love from hate, and life from death will inevitably remain thin...

Awka Kidnappings and Enemies Within

It is frightening that what may have started as genuine acts of protest have since been hijacked and elevated into a multi-million naira money spinner by those who are directly and indirectly involved in the business of kidnapping...

Buhari: His Winnowing Fork In His Hand

The monthly revenue allocation to the three tiers of...

Nutrition: South-East and South-South endangered by pollution

Malnutrition is widespread in the South-East and South-South zones of Nigeria. Observations are that malaria, anemia and other epidemics are prevalent in the provinces...