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...

What Somaliland Taught Me

Whether Americans or Africans, my friends reacted in much the same way when I disclosed I was headed for Hargeysa, the capital of Somaliland,...

Tamas Aczel: A Writer Who Inspired Me

One of the special joys of my time in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts was taking a fiction workshop with Tamas...

Of Pseudo Letter Writers and Authors

A letter is often a method or means of communication between two or more persons. Once penned and signed by the encoder, a letter...

Big Brother Africa: Tayo Faniran and the Lessons we Learnt

A lot of people who consider themselves 'serious minded' claim that they do not watch Big Brother Africa as it is a waste of...

Words Mean More Than What Is Set On Paper…

A child is engaged with words than reading and this comes even with the child’s first days in school. Processing the child’s thoughts and actions in...

Okey Ndibe’s Epiphany

Okey Ndibe, your article on how Chinua Achebe saved you from James Hadley Chase makes me put on a green and white thinking hat....

How Achebe Saved Me From James Hadley Chase

Two Saturdays ago, I had the privilege of giving a keynote at an international conference organized at the Senate House of the University of...

Film: Tool for Socio-cultural Integration and Tourism Promotion

Film, as the word implies, is defined as a thin sheet or strip of flexible material, such as a cellulose derivative or a thermoplastic resin,...

Don't miss

Is Ebola an instrument of bio-terrorism?

President Jonathan called him ''a crazy man.'' Was Patrick Sawyer really crazy for bringing Ebola to Nigeria? It all depends on how we look at his action and why...

The Importance of Functional Education

The importance of functional education to national life cannot...

1914 to 2012: Nigeria And Her Predicaments

Since flag independence in 1960, Nigerians have, for the most part, skirted the issue of nationhood: Is the amalgamation worth preserving? If so, under what economic and political arrangements; and what’s to be done to arrive at a more ideal union?

Strong Nigeria, Wrong Impression!

The effort to rebrand Nigeria may appear fruitless if public trust remains in the dark corner. My home-country, Nigeria embarked on a course of liberal economic reform that was impressive by developing-country standards and remarkable by its own. Four years later, much remain to be done...


Nigeria: Still An Abandoned Project

Please, could somebody just walk across to President Olusegun Obasanjo's cozy castle in Aso Rock and ask him how he felt when he saw the report that the two survivors of  the December 10 crash of the Sosoliso Flight 1145 in Port Harcourt were flown to South Africa  for medical treatment?

Madam Speaker Plays Her Level

What are Etteh and her people doing with Toyota Land Cruiser vehicles? Have these people totally wiped off the notion of service from public office?

Mountaineering and Manifestation of the Sons of God

Christianity is a heavenly call: A call by the God of Heaven unto salvation of our souls; a call to grow thereafter in Christ or to become more like the Lord of Heaven...

For Mama Abigail Arokoyu

I didn't shed a tear when I was told that Ye Wande had passed on. I knew she had gone to be with the Lord. I can't tell her age because back then when she was born, there was no record keeping...

Lagos Okada Riders and Death Wish

For many Lagosians, riding daily on okada is an unavoidable part of their daily routine as only the ‘kings of the road’ have the daredevil DNA to waltz, dash, slide, ride and manoeuvre their way through the thick Lagos traffic...

State of a Failed Nation (1)

Today, we have to pull and push Nigeria on...