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...

Agony Of A Continent

Africa's journey since the first contact with the Portuguese in the late 1490s is what Howard French passionately takes us through in his new book, A Continent For The Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa...

In Honor of Nigeria’s Literary Giants

This summer, I have dedicated my self to renewing the literary ties that bind my spirit to the black loamy soil of our land. This journey has taken me back to go through the works of those that preceded our times...

Orunmila, Odia And The NLNG Prizes

Every prize in the world lives not on bread alone but also from conditions that flow forth from its overall objective. Since prize sponsors have the freedom of conditions, what then is bad if the architects of the NLNG Prizes compose conditions that exclude offshore Nigerian scientists and writers...

Kalakuta English and Kalakuta Perspective

War is evil. War, throughout history and all over the world, is the condition that produces child soldiers whether in the war on Troy or the war on Rome in Haiti in Cambodia in Rwanda in the Arab jihads and intifadas...

Igbo Music: Where Are The Gongs And Flutes?

When highlife ruled the airwaves in Nigeria in the past decades, voices of Igbo musicians and others of south East extraction added to its popularity. But in the burgeoning contemporary music scene in Nigeria, the distinct voice of Igbo music has become muffled...

Agbani's Sickening Folly

Agbani has become Nigeria's ambassador of shame. She needs to be rescued before greater desperation drives her into more heinous acts. Somebody should, also, please walk across to her parents and talk some sense into them...

Agbani's Sickening Folly

Agbani has become Nigeria's ambassador of shame. She needs to be rescued before greater desperation drives her into more heinous acts. Somebody should, also, please walk across to her parents and talk some sense into them...

On Kongi’s New Book: You Must Set Forth at Dawn

Soyinka's new book You Must Set Forth at Dawn, is a dizzying tour de force in many ways. Soyinka manages to situate himself in every major event in Nigeria’s troubled history. He was actually at Dodan Barracks the day Gideon Orkar’s coup rattled Nigeria...

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Obaseki ‘Interests’ truncating Edo Procurement Laws

Very recently during a town hall meeting, we listened...

America, Europe, Israel, Palestine, Hamas & Democracy

Shock and amusement are the words that best sum up my feelings regarding the reactions generated in America, Europe and Israel to the electoral victory secured by Hamas in the recent Palestinian elections...

If Criminals Can Stream Their Crimes, Why Can’t Nigeria Transmit Election Results?

In today’s Nigeria, the contradiction is stark and unsettling....

IBB And The 2015 Igbo Presidency Gamble

Few weeks ago, some prominent Igbo leaders were locked out of the Concorde Hotel in Owerri where they were supposed to meet. According to the news report they had paid in advance for the hotel facility only to be told by gun-totting law enforcement agents that they had "orders from above" to stop the meeting...

Time for a New Anti-Corruption Manual

Those watching for clues to emerge of the tone and mettle of Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency will have the opportunity, much sooner than they expect, to take a measure of the man. In fact, there will be two early opportunities...

The Lesson I Learnt From My One-Man-On-The-Spot-Peaceful-Protest In Ibadan

The traffic situation in Akobo still remains the same as I left it four years ago. It is always a great battle from Akobo Ojurin axis to get to General Gas bridge in order to link anywhere you may be heading to. It takes nothing less than two hours forty-five minutes to get through the traffic jam that under normal circumstances should take any motorist only ten minutes...

Satan has relocated to Jos

I write this article with a heavy heart because, like anyone who grew up in Plateau State in those seemingly ancient days when it was a model of peace and multi-ethnic concord, I am at a loss for words...

On This Valentine’s Day Just Tell Me You Love Me

For several years now, the cost of love has been discouraging me from falling in love again. It is because of the cost of love that I have been running away from Oyinbo girls. Holy Moses, they want this and that and more...

Creation, True Science versus Evolution: Conclusion

God made it all! Evolution is mere fantasy; false science and bundle of confusion! It is only masking as science. It is far from being it. The Bible speaks of science so-called. This is one...

Prof Ernest Igwe: A Dean’s Example

In a season that university professors were being rubbished...