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...

Sikiru Adepoju: The Nigerian Percussionist Who Won Another Grammy

Sikiru Adepoju, an obscure and uncelebrated Naija percussionist, made Nigeria proud at the Grammys as part of the Global Drum Project quartet...

The Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature and the Nigerian Love of Exclusion

It is mind-boggling that a Continent that has still a lot of spaces to make up for in excellence, smuggles through the backdoor silly exclusionary clauses that end up making parts of its constituencies feel unwanted...

On The Day I Die I Will Rise Up…A Book Review

The majesty of one woman’s spirit provides the backdrop for the opening story: a tale of unrelenting domestic abuse, and institutionalized cruelty and injustice in the name of Sharia. A powerful beginning to a collection of stories structured around greater or lesser violations of God’s law or Man’s.

Sefi Atta’s Lawless Other Stories

Sefi Atta writes like one who has lived the life of each single character in her dazzling collection of short stories...

“Alade” Aromire: An Innovator’s Legacy

The epidemic of preventable, ghastly loss of lives through road accidents is a sad commentary on a society steadily going under, and lacking in elementary procedures of keeping its cities and populations safe...

Enough Of The Obasanjo Family, Please!

Bitter-Sweet: My Life With Obasanjo, is all about a woman’s attempt to rewrite herself into prominence and reckoning in one man’s life, to demonstrate, albeit incoherently...

The Storyteller

The Storyteller, a performance poet based in Abuja is on a mission to unzip the sealed lips of storytellers across Nigeria and he has made great and enviable strides...

Galala, Alanta are Echoes Of ‘Suffration’ In Ajegunle

There are allegations that some ghetto soldiers who fought so gallantly to highlight the plight of the ghetto in their songs seem to abandon it just as soon as the big bucks start rolling in...

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Onyeka Nwelue: The Abyssinian Boy Comes Of Age

"I haven't tasted any fame at all. Nothing like that. I am still like our agberos in Lagos, hassling to leap into that Molue bus going to Orile from Oshodi. I haven't. You can only say that when you come to my village. O yeah! They value me so much. There are no two ways about it. They say I am their Wole Soyinka..." - Onyeka Nwelue

Oduagate, Jonathan Presidency and the Culture Of Corruption

It may be true, as being put forth by perverted ethnic mandarins, that what presently passes off as Oduagate is becoming an integral part of statecraft in Nigeria. It may be true that corruption has become an ethnic commodity in Nigeria...

I am Back In Nigeria

You see, I have been cheated and taken advantage of so many times by taxi drivers, market women and by my neighbors so many times that it is no longer fun being a novice, a Johnny Just Come...

The Guardian: A Day in the Life of the Flagship

Oga, good afternoon, what is happening, why is everybody sad?’ I queried. He looked at me and I could at once see that he thought I was dumb for not. ‘Na because Guardian never come’  he answered disinterestedly…

Motivating Yourself To Superlative Performance (1)

What will it cost you if you fail to achieve your goals? How painful will it be? What will be the consequences to your family, your career, and your life purpose?

Development Strategy for Bayelsa State

In Bayelsa State, things are, for the most part, stagnant. Billions and billions of dollars since 1999 under two administrations, one cannot point to noteworthy progress in the state. Whatever development there is is mostly limited to the state capital, Yenagoa…

Nigeria Needs Constitutional Amendments and Electoral Reforms Now!

It appears to be a distraction and a complete waste of time for Nigerians to start engaging in useless ambiguities and silly prevarications...

Beyond the Nnamdi Kanu Rhetoric and the Igbo Question

This issue of Biafra agitation and the Igbo question...

Speaking Truth to Power: The Dummy OBJ Sold Nigeria

It is beginning to appear to me late in the day that President  Umaru Yar'Adua was imposed upon us not because of his ability to transform Nigeria but more for the opportunity to wrong foot and outwit the then Vice President Atiku...

The New Democracy And The Crashed Confidence

Despite some progress by the government of ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo in fighting corruption and improving the economy, Nigerians are deeply disappointed with how the country has turned out...