Arts & Books

An Only Child Named Friday

Homage: Return To Familiar Places - The Memoir by Chidi Amuta; Wilson & Weizmann Associates Limited, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria; 2025; 492pp It can indeed be...

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...

64 Toasts To Things Fall Apart

This year marks the 64th birthday anniversary of the iconic novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart was first published on June...

The rhythm of the words in the piano world of Echezonachukwu Nduka

By Nkanu Egbe purple robes adorn our bodies as stench from decaying limbs signal turbulence. we wine and dine in this room where cadavers are laid like logs, pulling the...

Celebration Africana at Bubbles Cubana

Obi Cubana is not just a patron of the arts, but an artiste in his own right. Take the message from the master minstrel,...

Nollywood, the silent tutor

The impact of Nollywood on Nigerian youths has been a thing of concern and uneasiness to me, especially with the recent news of a...

Nigerian Caesar Conquers London

Aah, It’s The Young Nigerian Boy! Memoirs by Caesar Kagho; CHP and Talkback Publishers, Warri, Delta State; 2019; 206pp  -------- Good books are written in Nigeria...

Thrillers Make The World Go Hip

Writers of thrillers are the richest authors all over the world. They may not almost always have high critical acclaim on the literary front, but...

Father Omega: Reverend Father of Revolutionary Music

It makes for history when a reverend father appears in bowler hat and offers revolutionary music that rivals Bob Marley’s offerings for class. Reverend...

Alex Ugwu And His Revoja Academy Calms Awka With “Dere Juu”

Whenever I encounter a creative work of art imbued with much beauty, I feel an immense sense of gratitude towards such artist who could...

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Gov. Okorocha, forgive T.A. Orji

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Nigeria’s Retrogressive Anti-Gay Law

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When the future of a nation is left swathed up in warts in the hands of platoons of tomfoolery and retrogrades, a double-edged sword of endemic and pandemic automatically become the results, and the entire citizenry feel the effect of the quotidian lancination that did not emerge in paroxysm...

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As an established writer with large and diverse audience taking on issues many consider "taboo", I recognise that I'm not infallible. Infallibility is wholly divine but one only aspires to be better and perfect in the art of writing...

“Latitudinal” and “Longitudinal” Balderdash

When I write, like many patriotic Nigerians, it is to beam some light on some of the darkness in our polity, hoping that those in whom the power to effect changes reside might wake up to their responsibilities. Our society is the way it is because most of us do not ask questions of our leaders...

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It’s Better to Reason Together, Please!

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Ned Nwoko’s Gag Bill: A Digital Death Sentence For Free Speech And Innovation

Senator Ned Nwoko has thrown a legislative grenade into...

A National Insult Rejected

How did we quickly forget that Abacha’s looting of public funds from the vaults of the Central Bank of Nigeria was a patriotic act? Or that he gave his cronies licenses to import toxic fuel into Nigeria because he so fiercely loved Nigerians and fervently desired their development?