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...

Reuben Abati and the Nigerian Guardian

My angst with the Guardian is that in spite of its stated and unstated goals, and considering the resources at its disposal, has not lived up to its billing and potentials. It is simply not enough to declare one's enterprise the flagship of Nigerian journalism...

Naija Music As A Vehicle Of Social Criticism: The Example Of African China

Despite his weaknesses, African China has established himself as a society conscious artiste. He has further succeeded in drawing our attention to most of the problems that the Nigerians society faces...

Friendly War

My wife claimed I hadn't given her "chop money" for the week. I know you don't believe her. Ah –ah, even the neighbors comment on how much fresher she looks while I continue to lose weight. Then next minute I was accused of being a tribalist who only got on with his countrymen on football match days...

Friendly War

My wife claimed I hadn't given her "chop money" for the week. I know you don't believe her. Ah –ah, even the neighbors comment on how much fresher she looks while I continue to lose weight. Then next minute I was accused of being a tribalist who only got on with his countrymen on football match days...

Friendly War

My wife claimed I hadn't given her "chop money" for the week. I know you don't believe her. Ah –ah, even the neighbors comment on how much fresher she looks while I continue to lose weight. Then next minute I was accused of being a tribalist who only got on with his countrymen on football match days...

Friendly War

My wife claimed I hadn't given her "chop money" for the week. I know you don't believe her. Ah –ah, even the neighbors comment on how much fresher she looks while I continue to lose weight. Then next minute I was accused of being a tribalist who only got on with his countrymen on football match days...

Friendly War

My wife claimed I hadn't given her "chop money" for the week. I know you don't believe her. Ah –ah, even the neighbors comment on how much fresher she looks while I continue to lose weight. Then next minute I was accused of being a tribalist who only got on with his countrymen on football match days...

Violence: Teaching Corporate Management Through Literature

It is the business of literature to empower us in making the best possible choice in the many alternatives of real life and to illustrate before hand, the consequence of each choice and each alternative whether at school, the family, in the place of work or the club...

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The Game Of The Masters

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Re-Branding Nigeria – A Game of Roulette!

Mrs Akunyili, do I really care if India has a lot of poverty and is yet more internationally accepted than Nigeria, if my child still remains jobless five years after graduating from a University where my life investment was spent on the hope of creating a future for him?

Security Needfulness: Nigerians Live In Place Of Their Livelihood!

The dawn of transmuted politics in Nigeria has encouraged strange dimensions of conflict:  violence and ethnic tension stage-managed by the Boko Haram sect...

Understand Help People

Those we are under are hardly being truthful and practice in reality the language of the visionary and the idealist they preach to us; their behaviours and ulterior motives toward us are not ideal...

Nigeria Has Abundant Resources; Where Are The Proceeds?

Minority citizens are typically marginalized from the affluent political society and have little representation or voice in public and political debates, making it even harder to escape poverty...

Big Brother Africa: Tayo Faniran and the Lessons we Learnt

A lot of people who consider themselves 'serious minded'...