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...

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…"

Dilemma of a Texan…A Decent Nigerian

I have always enjoyed reading barbs and cutting-remarks about Republicans. This president happens to be a Republican; and Republicans, as far as I can tell, never seem to be able to get anything right...

How We Destroyed Mike Tyson

Tyson spoke of killing his opponents and eating their children but instead of helping him find help, we rushed to watch his fights, to see him kill his opponents...

Fit For The Love Of It!

When someone is ready for something new, it often makes an appearance. When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. Whether you know it or not, you already have tremendous qualities inside of you...

Poetry Africa 2001: Cultural Commitment and the Eruption of Verse

It was a great feeling to "represent" my country in an international festival of a global status, a cultural festival which afforded some participants to be extra-political representatives of their different nations...

Africans Betrayed

Africans were justified in their expectations for a better life. However, those expectations and hopes were dashed or betrayed...

Christmas In March

In the first week of March, a kind of holiday because of the Magdalena festival, the people of Spain devote time to their favorite leisure activities: eating, drinking, dancing, resting and giving two kisses on both sides of the cheek, not necessarily in that order.

The World In A Slant of Light

To write not just about the future, but about what it would be like, would require more than minor talents like the ability to read economic indices or monitor the progress of technology. It required, more crucially, a language and an attitude of mind, and anyone who possessed anything close to these would hardly bother...

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Delta’s Stranger-than-Fiction Story of Two Omo-Ageges

Ovie Omo-Agege has always been a veritable pawn in the hands of Ibori and subsequently received choice appointments under the latter...

You are African?

“You are African? Cool, do you speak Swahili?” 

“You are from Nigeria? Waoh. I know this guy from Nigeria too. He just got arrested.”
“You are from Africa? So you speak another language right? Like not English or French or like a real language though. Yeah? Cool. Say something.”

Immunity Clause: To Stay Or Not To Stay

It is not hard to see that corrupt political leaders will make effort to see that the immunity clause is retained in the Constitution. That is the cloak under which they have been hiding for years and perpetrating their crimes against the Nigerian people...

Strange Things Have Happened In Nigeria

Yeah, yeah, yeah…I know it is stale news but I am sure that many people missed the “blow-by-blow” account of how M.K.O. Abiola died in 1998...

Of The Ogebe Verdict And Electoral Reforms

Since Ogebe and co have ruled that we are all mad to think that the job Iwu did in April even merited a mild rebuke and Yar’Adua has applauded, what then is the essence of electoral reforms?

God Is On Facebook

Facebook is fast becoming a medium for self-promotion, for grandiose statements, for keeping and for settling scores, for venting their frustrations, and for shamelessly espousing their religiosity...

Ekiti: A path to Economic Emancipation

By Damilola Adeniran Since the creation of Ekiti State on...

Home Away From Home

"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home" - Payne

Why Is Fayemi Not In Government?

When people watch a football match, a key player...

This Government and the Year 2009 Resolution

I’m convinced of the need to recognize that, politically speaking, we Nigerians have failed. Nigeria is just a caricature of a state, and the Nigerian nation a fictitious concept for sociologists and historians writing about the country...