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...

A Blazing Sun – The Story Teller Returns

Out of the seething, smoldering ruins of our collective horrid judgment, a giant Phoenix is born, worthy prodigy of the master Phoenix Chinua Achebe. Achebe lives! Adichie lives! Hurrah for the resilience of the human spirit. Chimamanda, I celebrate the mystery of you...

A Blazing Sun – The Story Teller Returns

Out of the seething, smoldering ruins of our collective horrid judgment, a giant Phoenix is born, worthy prodigy of the master Phoenix Chinua Achebe. Achebe lives! Adichie lives! Hurrah for the resilience of the human spirit. Chimamanda, I celebrate the mystery of you...

The Newcomer’s Guide To Making A Nollywood Movie

It is very important to determine how many "slaps" and "slumpings" will feature in the Nollywood movie. The more the slaps and slumpings, the merrier. A Nollywood flick without slaps is like a Bollywood movie without the dance...

Notes From Toronto: Ike Anya at the 16th International AIDS Conference

Toronto is abuzz as twenty four thousand delegates from all over the world congregate for the opening of the 16th International AIDS Conference...

Dark Journey: A Squatter’s Tale

In Ike Oguine's A Squatter's Tale, we see what happens when what passes for free enterprise is layered on a rickety structure of governance. The result is capitalism of the worst sort, of a swarm of locusts engaged in self immolation – a relentless march of self destruction ravaging and raping the heart and soul of a once proud people...

Beginnings with Philately…

My country and our men and women have a passion for football. Even the kids. And that is why I sometimes wonder why the postage stamp on my snail mail ignites an interest more profound than the squabbles with our FA and its leadership...

Does 30 Days Live Up To The Hype?

Does 30 Days, the movie, live up to the hype? It doesn't disappoint. Besides, it doesn't matter. Hype is the great marketing tool and as long as the movie sells, the publicist's work is done...

The Guardian: A Reflective Appendage To Sabella Abidde’s Article

Maybe the Guardian is simply tired as an entity and plays along to remain viable.Maybe the focus of the founder, Chief Ibru, has changed.If this is the case, then something is wrong...

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The making of Goodluck Jonathan, the Acting President, is a true evidence of how Nigerians can exercise their powers. Power belongs to the people...

The National Public Health Agency Alternative

There is no gainsaying the fact that Nigeria is faced with a lot of public health challenges and there is a need to design programs to address these problems in order to improve the health of the citizens...

The Catholic Mission House Boys

What kind of woman does not like being pursued by men? It was not as if she was a virgin. She already had a child that she spoke of but had not even bothered to bring with her. She was probably one of these wayward women...

What Happened to the Uwais Panel Reports?

Nigeria is a nation run on the erratic brainwave of those that have succeeded in cornering state power. Here, the attention span of both the leaders and the led is mercifully short. No importance is attached to details...

Bestride Keyamo’s Jungle and Kanu’s Zoo

Unwittingly, Nigeria keeps owning up to all its many...

The Bond That Tears Rivers Apart

A press statement, Sunday 31st July, 2011, through the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, David Iyofor, said that the state needed N250 billion Bond...

Welcome to Sociocracy: Against AK-47 Democracy in Nigeria

It is the Western man and not the African...

Agents of Darkness

The federal government has failed woefully in the provision of electricity as it did in telecom services...

A New Nigeria Free From Cultism…Do We Have Hope?

We cannot call ourselves strong men, if the next Nigerian elections are rigged before our very eyes. We must begin to perceive Africa with a new eye as a continent of possibilities...