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...

It Matters Who Represents You

I do not make it my business to tell moviemakers who to cast in their projects but when they take to degrading or assaulting black women’s image, then getting involved becomes unavoidable. The casting of a biracial woman to represent Igbo women who are native West Africans is based strictly on hatred of dark skinned black women...

Whitney Huston: The Mezzo Soprano Extraordinary…

Whoever brings joy, happiness and emotional upliftment to the world, I rate higher than those in the service of satan, who cause wars, promote rebellion, cause sorrow and societal dislocations around the world...

Chris Abani: Lie$ of the Truth-Seller

It is instructive that when a comprehensive list of writers who have betrayed their readers' trust through lies is made, you will never find an African on that list. By African, I mean continental African writers, persons born in Africa, who experienced Africa, possibly started their writing career there...

Chris Abani: Lie$ of the Truth-Seller

It is instructive that when a comprehensive list of writers who have betrayed their readers' trust through lies is made, you will never find an African on that list. By African, I mean continental African writers, persons born in Africa, who experienced Africa, possibly started their writing career there...

FL the Zagaza Master Makes His Way into the Clique of Nigeria’s top Musical Artistes

The city of Port Harcourt stood still on the 26th of November, 2011 at Tunnel’s Bar and Lounge, GRA Port Harcourt. It was the occasion of the album listening party of FL, the self-styled Zagaza Master...

Karen Igho: Africa's Most Beloved

Big Brother Africa season six has come and gone. It was the first time in the history of the show that two housemates were crowned winners - Karen and Wendall. But the fact that there were two winners was not the best part of the show...

An Acoustic Close-up with Bez Idakula in Abuja

Bez is a storyteller and he regaled us with stories and 'yabis' in between the four songs he performed. His first song was "Supersun" which he made us sing along with him...

For John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo: Triumphing Over an Imaginary Tragedy

If the aim of the book was to diminish Clark, Maja-Pearce misses the mark terribly. The reader actually comes away empathizing with Clark at the end of the book. And it was not for lack of Maja-Pearce trying. He expends extraordinary energy toward diminishing the man...

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Does The Rule Of Law Still Exist?

So many things have happened in Nigeria that are so unimaginable, to think of it will drain the tears in one's eye. I feel pity for Nigerians because we have suffered too much in the hands of these cabal...

Zoning of Public Office and Its National Relevance

Zoning as a concept has its pros and cons especially in a multi-composite society like Nigeria. We co-habit in a society but divided in a variety of ways...

The Geometric Power Breakthrough In Aba

The official commissioning of the Aba Integrated Power Project...

Burnt Markets

Incidences of fire on our markets, are becoming a threat to the nation's economic growth/development. Physical markets in Nigeria are perhaps the largest employers of labour in the private sector...

Boko Haram: Shall we tell the president?

There is a need to examine the motive as to why the Boko Haram sect restricts its campaign amongst a people to whom they are intrinsically nexus in culture and religion...

Legitimacy of governance, succession, policing, in Nigerian politics: a way of life

A situation where you see police officers used as private escort for wealthy individuals including expatriates is befuddling. The hustling mentality, the lack of self-esteem by officers and rank, including poor pay structure will forever produce a corrupt and mediocre police system...

Winning the fight against corruption

President Buhari has made the fight against corruption one...

The Unimaginative and Purposeless Political Recycling

President Jonathan must be resolute and pick the best people for his cabinet and not pander to the party bigwigs who have no interest in the progress of Nigeria, but put self-interest and self-survival before the welfare of the people of this country...

Naira Redenomination: Winners and Losers

In every Sabo and near transit centers are men and families who will lose their means of livelihood if Soludo had succeeded in making the naira convertible and strengthened its rate of conversion...

The Untalented Mr Woodrow

I’m having a bad day at work, my nerves are barely holding together as a result of work pressure and this creepy moron’s email pops up again on my mail box...