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...

Owanbe! Is Here, A Guide Book on How Life Is Lived in Nigeria

Professors Abi Adegboye and Ibiyemi Dare have written a most fascinating account on how life is lived in Western Nigeria in the book, Owanbe! Yoruba Celebrations of Life...

Roar, African, Roar

This is an eclectic collection of short stories offering ample evidence that African literature is alive and well. New talent rises every day from the dawn of yesterday's departure. It provokes thought...

BBC 2 Documentary: Welcome To Lagos

British Broadcasting Corporation 2 deserves special commendation for finding time, resources and manpower that went to Nigeria to do such an eye opening documentary...

Nollywood…unending search for lifeline

Nollywood has amazing potential. For the industry to be truly viable, it will require a deft understanding of a specifically targeted niche market in the United States. It will take an aggressive approach towards copyright enforcement...

The Final Come Down Came: A Book Excerpt for Men Only

I had barely sat down.  Hadn’t even had time to take the first sip of my coffee when this man planted himself in the chair directly opposite me.   It was the last thing I needed...

Lamentations of a Writer

Somebody should have told me way back that I'll someday carry burdens like Atlas of ancient Greece which no one can help offload from my heart. For if I had known, I would have played out the worst-case scenario in my mind...

In Search Of The African Writer

Our rage is misplaced; all over Africa our political and intellectual leaders are hard at work trying to convince the world that we are sub-humans. Yet, when we are called sub-humans, we wail foul. It was not white folks that sent us packing into the cold fields of exile...

Book Review: On Black Sisters’ Street

Chika Unigwe’s book is a story of modern slave trade and a must read for everyone, especially budding young people back in Africa who often have mighty utopian dreams about life in Europe...

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Just what is Christmas?

Christmas is, without doubt, the most prominent among the several irremediably polluted children that emerged from the very unholy and ungodly marriage between a depreciating version of Christianity and Roman paganism...

Dinner From A Lagos Dustbin

It was a very beautiful evening in Lagos. I was in the car, waiting for my wife to get her bag from her office so we could go home together. Then, I saw him...

Yakubu Gowon – A Fine Cut Above The Rest

I return to this same topic to conclude a private dwelling in a public space by stating louder than the chiselling of the printed word can allow... Jack has taken a godly and goodly path. Well done, Jack!

Matters Arising: War Against Corruption Revisited

Events in the past two weeks and beyond have cast very serious doubts on Nigerians’ optimism that the war against corruption in the polity and in governance, by the government of President Yar’Adua is being fought convincingly and being won...

Okey Ndibe's Passport Seizure: A test of our predictable elasticity

My prior experience with the SSS predicted a termination of my self-imposed literary intermission. Not for the sake of furlough for furlough’s sake though. These political days make the graduation from scrawling to partaking, reckonable...

Governor Kalu of Abia State Should Shut Up!

Governor Kalu of Abia State is the PDP enfant terrible! He often speaks before he thinks! It has become a common practice among some Nigerians to behave like Governor Kalu. While hiding under the immunity clause of our constitution, they break our laws...

The Call for Women Governors

Nigerians needs to embrace a new generation of state governors…specifically women. They are often more forthright, they seek answers to questions not for the personal financial benefits it may bring but for the goodness it may have on the masses...

Kidnapping A Nation

The octogenarian mother of Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was kidnapped right from inside their palace last week.  Of course it had to happen in Delta State, the home of corrugated kidnapping...

UNGA at 80: A Step Towards Peace and Conflict Resolution

As we find ourselves navigating the complexities of the...