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Homage: Return To Familiar Places - The Memoir by Chidi Amuta; Wilson & Weizmann Associates Limited, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria; 2025; 492pp
It can indeed be...
It is an indelible historical fact that Nigerian political development has been shaped by chance happenings, of unprepared leaders accidentally jumping onto the stage, rigging themselves into high political offices, for which they are neither academically equipped nor did they possess the requisite experience in statecraft...
Bona’s current work is a testament to an artist’s insistence that art can serve as an idiom of rebirth. In the current works, Bona celebrates life and offers the ultimate honor to a son whose star was abbreviated far too soon...
The 2013 “Black in the Mediterranean Blue” event, part of the Lagos Black Heritage Festival in Nigeria, will celebrate that strong cultural bond between Brazil and the people of Nigeria. This year’s festival will be themed around a “Bring Back Brazil” concept, with Professor Wole Soyinka as Festival coordinator...
A good thing, it is said, cannot possibly remain hidden or in obscurity forever. In the case of Nollywood actress Nse Ikpe-Etim, this could hardly be truer. Her thespian star continues to grow in such a way that one can no longer ignore her acting prowess...
It is very unfortunate that both Peter Tosh and Lucky Dube were killed by fellow blacks. Were their killers acting for themselves or as agents of faceless, but powerful external forces? Is their murder the handiwork of persons who felt pricked by the messages contained in the lyrics of their songs?
Poetry in Nigeria, the most populous African country, has evolved remarkably over five decades of independence. My grandfather was a poet who composed in his head and shared his culture through epic poems, employing the craft as a way of remembering oral history, stories, genealogy, and law...
Since no one is listening to the grievances and genuinely addressing the concerns of the Niger Delta, perhaps it is time Niger Deltans change position and strategy. Something needs to be done to force the hand of the Nigerian State...
I like Wal-Mart. I like their sales better than any other stores’. I am interested in their DVD player sales. It doesn’t matter that I already have six DVD players in the house. I need one in my car garage...
We cannot entertain angels if we are living in sealed houses. We cannot if only those we harbor in our homes are our ‘loved ones’ and our close friends. Learn to harbor missionaries, the persecuted believers, the physically-challenged, orphans and the others who are in need...
Under the vicious, heartless and pernicious, inhuman, political and economic systems of Apartheid, there could not have been a World Cup competition in South Africa...
Maybe one needed to lose an old job so as to get a new one that would open a greater opportunity. Perhaps the loss of a long held hope or dream was what one needed to turn a new leaf and find a better aspiration.
One of the reasons why anti-corruption activities reached their...
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