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...

On Stage and In Print

Drama And Theatre In Nigeria: A Critical Source Book Edited By Yemi Ogunbiyi; Second Edition; Tanus Books Limited, Lagos; 2014; First Published 1981; 736pp   The...

The Yoruba: Two Thousand Years of Workable History

The Yoruba: A New History by Akinwumi Ogundiran; Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, USA; 2020; 532pp   It strikes me as not very funny that there...

Bob Marley Plays Forty Years onto Eternity

It is difficult to believe that forty years had swept by since the death of the legendary master, Bob Marley. Yes, Robert Nesta Marley, universally...

Okigbo and Udeozo: Two Christophers On the World Literary Stage

The Okigbo mystique Sometime in 2015, some young poets undertook a pilgrimage to River Idoto, a muddy-colored river in Ojoto in Anambra State, Southeastern Nigeria....

Architects of the Nollywood Phenomenon

Reflections on Nigerian Movie Industry: Salute to Pioneering Creativity and Perseverance by Femi Akintunde-Johnson; Basic Skills Academy (ISBN 978-1-716-08239-9); 2021; 158pp    Nigeria is celebrated across...

Snackable Reflections on Nollywood

Movie-making in Nigeria, a story already long and winding, is nevertheless young and evolving. Like the proverbial elephant in the grip of blind men,...

The “Within the Trees” workshop, Transforming Poetry to Sound

The “Within the Trees” workshop, March 19 – 21 2021 took place in Oshogbo Osun state. It was organised by Tantdile, an experimental hub...

The Most Dangerous House in Lagos

A do-gooder told his landlord that any tenant who sends the police after the owner of the house “is capable of killing you.” This selfsame...

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Twenty years after his passing, Awolowo lives on. He lives through his friends and family. He lives through his disciples. He lives through the great things he did for Nigeria...

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On Pastor Adeboye

I have said it before, the problem called Pentecostalism is not in the uncontraceptive spread of churches, it is in how they corrupt the roots of our thinking and return us speedily to the primitive age...

Major Minority

The Hispanics are suddenly commanding more attention from businesses and politicians because they are about to eclipse the reign of the Blacks in America as the most populous minority in the US...

Foreign Policy and Nigeria’s External Affairs Ministers

In theory and in practice Africa has always been the primary focus of Nigeria’s foreign policy thrust. History and the political realities of colonial and post-colonial Africa dictated much of this trend...

Interview with Greg Zell, A Friend of Nigeria

Gregory Zell, an American Peace Corps volunteer served in Nigeria in the 1960s and fell in love with the country. He believes that Nigeria has the potentials of becoming one of the best countries in the world if only Nigeria and her people can put their acts together...

Amupitan and his Dance of Shame

From afar or a reasonable distance, the Independent National...

African Marriages As Business Ventures

There was a time when Africans, especially the men, kept to their promise of someday returning home to marry the women they left behind. Those days are mostly long gone...

Unclean Hands: The Growing Epidemic in Washington

Because cleanliness they say is next to godliness. In the...