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...

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...

Nigerian Music Scene: A Case For A Conservatoire

Will Nigeria ever have a homegrown classical or folk music that can be exported to other cultures and drawing respect and admiration...

Nollywood, Our Nollywood

Foreign donors will not permit Nollywood to tell our stories in our own way just as francophone African film has to fit within the paradigms and parameters of European film to attract French funding...

Visiting Silverbird Cinema

The Silverbird cinema illustrates the beautiful generosity of the Bruce family’s progressive interest in conquering entertainment in Nigeria after night clubbing, beauty pageantry, concerts etc...

Beyond Baba Shege’s Homily To The Nigerian Actors' Guild

Mr. Asiegbu, the Actors' Guild president, should have told Obasanjo that every artistic production tries to adhere to social realism and thus until such a time that the situation in Nigeria is garbed in positivism, the movie industry would continue to represent the negative sides as the social situation actually is...

A Rejoinder To NewYork Times’ “Entrenched Epidemic: Wife-Beating in Africa”

By not exercising caution in your choice of stories and captions, you do your profession, the New York Times and the great majority of Americans who are ignorant of life outside the United States, a great disservice...

The Electrolysis of Glendora Review

Since its inception in 1995, Glendora Review is reputed to be a permanent habitation for critical discourse, polemics, tough-minded, far-reaching criticism and a site for unconventional ideas on African arts and cultural philosophy...

No To Sovereign National Conference – A Review

The book, “No to Sovereign National Conference” is, without the slightest iota of doubt, a demonstration of a deep patriotic fervor by Adebayo Adejare.  The book offers some very cogent ingredients that he believes will pave the way for the enthronement of unity, stability and democratic governance as a going concern in our Fatherland...

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The Unwholesomeness of Homosexuals and Homosexuality

Those in the West championing the cause for 'gay freedom' are frontally attacking the natural order of creation...

The Return Of Abacha Via His Bagman

It is no fake news that General Sani Abacha’s...

Obasanjo against Abacha – How Futile and Delusional a Comparison

Today, some Nigerians think fondly of Abacha. Is collective amnesia setting in? Wasn't this the man who, not too long ago, made our country a burning hell at night and a frigid wasteland in the daylight hours?

The Myth of New Year Resolutions: Why 2025 Won’t Magically Save You

As we inch closer to the dawn of 2025,...

David-West warned Okonjo-Iweala on World Bank

The one-sided choice of Jim Yong Kim on 16th April 2012, as the World Bank president, by President Barack Obama of the USA, resulting to Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, being dropped, has further exposed America's democracy...

Brewery Blunder? Soludo’s Controversial Claim Sparks Outrage!

It was meant to be a moment of pride....

Saint Abacha? R.I.P. Lamidi Adedibu

It is only in Nigeria…only in Nigeria…would people like Buhari, Babangida and Abubakar be seen in public, let alone speak at any public forum, and let alone have their speeches recorded by the media. Some day, we will be rid of these incorrigible entities that have bestridden our society....

Dr. Mlyes Munroe: The 21st Century Renaissance Christian Man

Mr. Robinson introduced himself as Myles Munroe's former high school teacher who had derogatorily called Myles a "monkey with no brains" way back in the Bahamas. He never thought anything good would come out of this black boy...

Tinubu, and Ambode’s Scrotum

Nigerian politics is a funny amphitheater of absurdity. It...

Kingsley Osadolor: The Guardian Rottweiler is 50

Professional antagonists who might want to spar self-righteously against Kingsley Osadolor will have to concede one sacred thing to him. He is one of the shiftless, strategically stubborn and unflagging icons of the Guardian Newspaper...