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...

Whiteman: The Heart of Our Darkness

Whiteman is an improbable tale told beautifully. It is possible but highly improbable that the main character could zip through a wide swathe of Africa and not meet an intellectual of stature that he can have an adult conversation with. People will see what they wish to see...

Some Cherished Moments at the Q Club

Perhaps age has something to do with it. I prefer a club where I do not have to bother about the girl next to me. I want a club that my wife will know when I am visiting it and she would not have sleepless nights about the possibility of some smart girl taking advantage of my tipsiness...

Nigerian Movies: Adaptation or Echolalia?

You may not be able to imagine the frustration we feel sometimes at being bandied about as the third biggest or largest movie industry in the world and yet have a plethora of movies that will hardly justify this tag...

Ichemeta’s Experience And The Rest Of Us

It is no longer news then that the Big Brother Nigeria show has since claimed its first casualty after two weeks...

Africa Independent Television in America

This is suggestion to handlers of AIT from my 3 years or so experience watching the station in the USA. I know you guys are doing a good job, but I hope you will pay attention to some grey areas I think need improvement...

Jesus Christ Superstar: A Review

A religion, to stay alive, does not only need pious adherents, it also needs enemies. It is in its response to its enemies and non-adherents that its true worth is revealed...

Music, Musicians and the Music Industry in Nigeria

Music knows no country, race or creed, but gives to each according to his need. Music is the best of all art forms and luckily the easiest to acquire. It is only the musician who can talk to the whole world at once and be understood by all...

Oscars 2006 – A Departure From Glamour

I finally had an experience that was more boring than waiting to have your car registered at the Department of Motor Vehicles. There is no better way of putting it; the Oscars this year was a crash that broke backs on the mountain of entertainment...

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The Political Permutations of a Somnambulist

There are Nigerians of immense faith, who believe in prayers and in miracles and in abracadabra and all that and so believe that President Yar’Adua will be back to assume the daily functions of the Presidency...

Hypocrites eulogizing Yar’Adua

Just after the president died, those who took one cheap shot or the other at him and at his family are the very ones now praising him to heaven and hell...

Nigeria At Fifty: A Story of Grand Failure

It is disheartening that at fifty, we are practically lying prostate while humanity races to the moon. It is understandable why Nigerians openly regret our independence from external colonialists...

Heritage Premieres in London

Asked why he has not ventured into the burgeoning home video market at the UK premiere of his new movie, veteran filmmaker Ladi Ladebo reveals that he “hates the idea of going to video”. He asserts that celluloid is “cleaner and requires a different discipline…"

Interview with Greg Zell, A Friend of Nigeria

Gregory Zell, an American Peace Corps volunteer served in Nigeria in the 1960s and fell in love with the country. He believes that Nigeria has the potentials of becoming one of the best countries in the world if only Nigeria and her people can put their acts together...

Nigeria is Bleeding Profusely!

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Nuclear Diplomacy and the Diplomacy of Peaceful Co-existence

Since the United States retaliated against the Japanese Pearl Harbour incident during the Second War, by dropping on Hiroshima and Nagasaki an atomic bomb called, "Little John", some states started to develop their atomic and nuclear research...

The Moral Regeneration of the Inner Man

As I talk with Christian friends, I sense a degree of discontent with the seeming inability of the Church to impact society's morals in a more positive sense. It's as though Christians are increasingly getting weaker and spiritually bland...

'One Nigeria': To Be Or Not To Be? (4)

Do you want your ethnic group to be part of a country even if the probability of your ethnic group producing the president is practically equal to zero despite the fact that your contribution in terms of human and mineral resources is substantial?

The New Face of Garri

Any time that James Akpanudoh has his favourite meal of Eba, gari soaked in hot water, particularly in the evenings, he found out that his whole system shut down...