Arts & Books

For many Nigerian children born and brought up in the cities, the traditional practice of teaching children through fables, parables, and other forms of oral tradition are virtually non-existent...

The evening of Sunday 26th July 2009 witnessed serious, soul searching and no-holds-barred straight talk about the hip hop genre of Nigeria’s music industry. The first and the much hyped Nigerian Hip Hop Conference pioneered by the Committee for Relevant Arts lived up to its billing...

Now the music scene is a complete bedlam and like all situations in our country, it has spun out of control. Bum shaking, women bashing, the F-word, explicit and sexually violent lyrics have become the order of the day.  Forget it, the regulatory bodies can only bark...

I agree that there is room for improvement in Nollywood productions, as indeed with anything else, I do feel that Spike Lee’s Nollywood remarks were suffocatingly patronising, condescending, paternalistic and hubristic; characteristics which he has often detested and decried in the many of the antagonists with whom he has crossed swords over the years...

Perhaps the valiant efforts of Sam Itauma of Child Rights and Rehabilitation Network coupled with the honourable actions of Gary Foxcroft of Stepping Stones Nigeria brought home the stark reality of the wicked phenomenon called child witches in Nigeria...

I am concerned because you are being called, a kokolette, which as I guessed, was a variant of the word, ‘koko.’ As at the last time I heard the word, Koko, it was a word with deducible vulgar meanings...

The African literary landscape is coloured by those influenced by Things Fall Apart. Indeed, the man-behind-the-story is referred to as the granddaddy of African literature. Whoever is the daddy?

Mummy was a workaholic who had no office like daddy but daddy opened a shop for her at the Umuahia main market to console her. To keep her busy mind, hands and legs engaged and distracted. It was a provision store full of household goods and articles...