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...

Auntie Obianuju

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...

Omoseye Bolaji, A Nigerian Author’s Exploits In South Africa

Omoseye Bolaji, is an award winning black African writer who over the years has contributed phenomenally to the growth of Black Literature at grassroots level in South Africa, especially in the Free State…

In The Studio With Jeremiah Gyang

Jeremiah Gyang has a passion to reach those who would ordinarily not listen to a gospel song nor deliberately walk into the bowels of a church where gospel songs are sung by believers...

Nigerian Christian Arts: Creative, Spiritual And Intellectual?

Christians first thought RAP music was from the pit of hell only to reckon later that it is pure poetry and spoken word on the fast lane. Now we struggle to rap like late-bloomers...

Notorious Without a Doubt

There are weird things that happen at the cinema in Lagos and I am convinced it must be cultural. We talk at the movies. I don’t mean in hushed tones, I mean that people actually talk in normal tones...

The Unsung Nigerian Writer in a Hip-hop World

Unlike the 'full-time' hip-hop musicians, the Nigerian writer has to keep a 9-5 job to keep hunger pangs at bay. He has no access to government or private funds to attend literary conferences, arts residencies or fellowships...

The curious case of Benjamin Button

In my life I have found reality to be far, far stranger than fiction and that art often imitates life and not the other way round. I guess I love this movie so much because there were so many things to learn from it...

War Child: A Novel by Bruce Cerew

War Child is a tale of humor and tragedy, courage and fear, hopelessness and anticipation, love and betrayal, hope and triumph...

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You cannot flip the pages of the hundreds of Nigeria’s newspapers, and millions of websites dedicated to analyzing the problems of Nigeria without coming away with a sense of knowing what is required. But somehow, the nation manages to elect the most unqualified and unpatriotic individuals to high offices, ensuring these common sense solutions never see the light of the day...

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It is quite disturbing that one of the country’s leaders who is supposed to realize the effect and weight of his public pronouncements descended so low as to declare that he does not read Nigerian newspapers...

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The media must think the members of the listening public are a bunch of morons. When will the media circus get it that we have stopped buying their bunk?

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NTC: The time bomb!

The diminuendo of the ousting and death of Muammar Gaddafi came with the bombshell dropped by Mustafa Abdel Jalil in his inaugural speech, where he claimed Libya for sharia law, a law which had been jettisoned by the erstwhile government, and the immediate lift of ban on polygamy, as if that was the motive for staging this rebellion in the first place...

Igbos Deserve A Chance To Ruin (Fix) Nigeria Too…

If anything, we are all in agreement that there is no hope in this current arrangement anyhow. If we agree on that, then let’s conclude and exhaust these very arrangements with the selection of an Igbo in 2011...

Nigeria’s Flourishing Fake Industries

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