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...

Crimson Dynamics: Taking the blood issue seriously

The issues relating to blood transfusion are vast but it is disturbing that medical experts are not doing enough to get Nigerians informed of such delicate issues...

Notes on 'Notes from the Underground'

My maiden voyage to the illuminating world of Literature was via a small, big book...

My Nigeria: Five Decades of Independence – a review

There are many thought provoking scenes in the book. There is his visit to the 100 million dollar Mai Deribe mansion in Maiduguri with its Italian marble floors, Gold Room and mechanized doormats and his encounter with Ahmed Sani, the Sharia law proponent Governor of Zamfara State who admits that his wealth was acquired improperly as a central bank official under Abacha...

How Nollywood is Killing Nigerian Television

The eighties and nineties Nigeria belonged to actors and actresses who lighted up our TV screens with superb performances in soaps, TV dramas and shows such as Inside Out, Mirror in the Sun, Supple Blues, Behind the Clouds, Checkmate, Fortunes, Basi & Company, Ripples, New Masquerade...

My Debt to Nigeria’s Two Literary Giants

Two years ago, I drove from my home in central Connecticut to the quiescent country precincts of Annandale-on-Hudson to visit author Chinua Achebe, whose novel Things Fall Apart was enjoying a cheery 50th anniversary...

How the Nigerian music industry becomes a warring zone

Today, Nigeria is called "the heart of African music" in line with her strides in music developmental...

Why Mercy Johnson’s marriage didn’t hold

She is one of the ingenious innards in Nollywwod, the theatrical and delectable damsel from Kogi State...

Who Controls Nollywood Ghollywood?

The Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN, should call on the Nigerian Film and Video Marketers and stakeholders to avoid giving prominence to foreign actors at the expense of their local counterparts...

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The Atiku Conundrum

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Biyi Bandele Who Came In From The Back Of Beyond

He started out as Biyi Bandele-Thomas, and shocked the...

Pini Jason: A generation has been robbed of a beacon of hope

It has been a challenge for me to write this. Several times I tried to write this piece but each time my emotional strength failed me. The reality, however, is that I cannot continue to delay it even if I have to do this misty-eyed as is the case now...

Sexually Transmitted Degrees

There are, one conjectures, multitudes of Nigerian bankers, engineers, lawyers, accountants, physicians, mass communicators, economists – to name a few – who flaunt sexually transmitted degrees, diplomas or certificates. Or degrees that were priced and bought, not earned through diligent study...

Fayose for President, Dino for Nobel Prize!

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CBN, nationalised banks and investors

Numerous stakeholders in the financial industry and Nigerians in general have well-observed over time, that Malam Sanusi’s carefree and occasionally inconsistent policy pronouncements on certain burning fiscal issues concerning Nigerian and foreign investors alike, leave much to be desired...

International Legal Issues in the Scottish Quest for Independence from the UK

The Scots are poised for national regeneration. There will be fireworks in the university towns of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Durham and others...

Pounded Yam In Vienna

I descended on the meal as though i had never ever eaten pounded yam before. I pounded the yam in my mouth with the ease of one who had been starved for weeks. Suddenly i was unable to follow or lead any coherent conversation, my concentration and attention were focused on the collapsing structure of the mountainous pounded yam in front of me...

Biafra on My Mind

With the formal declaration by Lieutenant-Colonel Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Military...