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...

Big Brother Naija Sees All Sorts

Big Brother Naija, BBNaija for short, is one television show that no Nigerian can ever escape from. Whether you like to watch it or not,...

Poets Storm Idoto in Honour of Christopher Okigbo

By Odili Ujubuoñu African poets will stir the quiet and rustic Ojoto village in Anambra state between 19th and 21st August, 2021, for the triennial...

Sculptures and Paintings of Immense Promise

Awka, the capital of Anambra State, takes pride of place as a pivotal home of art and culture, but art exhibitions are few and...

Fela the Spirit @ 24

Let's just begin by stating that Fela the Spirit transformed into a higher spirit on this day 24 years ago. There can be nobody else...

The Quest for Meaning

The Journey: Pursuit of Purpose Storified by Stanley Ohanugo; BrandZilla Technologies Limited, Nigeria; 2021; 188pp The best way a man can arrest the world is...

From Wild, Wild West To National Inferno

A seemingly innocuous spark in an otherwise isolated part of a nation can change the course of history. Nigerian history as we have it...

An Authentic African Epic

By Yusiff Nanah Charm Kamara   I stumbled on Odili Ujubuonu's "Crows of the Yellow Stream" on Amazon. I was instantly drawn to the word "Crows" in its title....

Writers Are Licensed To Kill

Writers can kill. The creative writer plays God by creating people on paper and destroying lives at will with an ordinary pencil or pen or...

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Has The Image Of Our Women Public Officers Been Dented?

The reported case of financial misdemeanor on the part of  Prof. Grange need to be handled swiftly. Like Patricia Olubunmi-Ette, Adenike Grange is on her own. They neither represent the best of the Nigerian women public office holders nor their demography...

Sovereignty, Economic Security, Obama's visit, Jonathan, 2011 Elections and Development of Nigeria: Correlation (2)

The Americans and British, through their cabals in Nigeria, have chosen our presidents for us since 1960. The United States in particular through its secret service, the C.I.A., with annual budget running into trillions of dollars...

An Open Letter to Mr. Inye Harry

I do not know you. You do not know me. In other words, I am writing this letter to you because you have made statements that affect me. You have told lies against a man you knew nothing about. You have dragged his name in the mud...

What An Obama Presidency Should (And Might) Look Like

The immediate priorities of the new administration should be stemming the tide of economic troubles caused by the bad decisions and indecisions of the past eight years...

Gov. Fayose’s Misplaced Priority and Nothingness 

The best way to be a popular politician in...

What to do about Alamie on the Lam

Alamieyeseigha has no moral authority to put anyone in jail henceforth, having jumped bail himself. The precedent set by the governors of Plateau and Bayelsa is this: If you can get away from the law, run…

The Tragedy of Greed and Corruption: The Pain and Grievances of the Ijaws

What is happening in the Niger Delta is the product of several decades of neglect and abandonment, of institutional and systemic corruption, of failure in leadership and of a country and a government that would not listen to the cries and pleas of a thoroughly marginalized people...

2011 And Dearth Of Issue-Based Politics

The way things are slowly but steadily building up, there is the possibility that Nigeria could, once again, be foisted with a leader in 2011 who never promised the country anything before assuming the presidency...

I Stand On Existing Protocols

Nigeria, the sleeping giant of Africa and its leaders and privileged citizens are still mounting podiums and making speeches and addresses rather than getting our hands dirty by doing what is needful to turn the tide of underdevelopment in our country...

The Inevitable Recolonization of Africa

Many falsely assume that Africa’s first colonization was achieved largely by military means. Not true. In fact, many African rulers of those days willfully signed away their independence much the same way the people of Mayotte did at the ballot box...