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...

Ambush In The Night

Saro-Wiwa found sympathetic ears particularly among Nigerian journalists working in the independent press where he was in any case, considered a member of the house...

The Incredible Fate of Small People

As you read of the slave ships waiting to berth in Cotonou, you'll also do well to remember that there is an international school on the other side of the city, or in nearby Lome, where rich black kids learn to become ambassadors and international politicians and financiers.

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Anti-Muslim Film: Free Speech or Hate Speech?

The line between free speech and hate speech isn’t always defined. What is hateful to one person may be legitimate to another. All societies place limits of free speech, and some are far more restrictive than others.  Irrespective of geography, however, drawing that line in the sand is never easy, and inevitably leads to intense, polarising debates...

The Man Buhari – a leader, a patriot or a separatist – who is he?

I am casting my vote for this Nigerian leaders - Buhari and Pastor Tunde Bakare. As a detribalized Nigerian, I implore those who would want true federalism in this country to vote Buhari...

2007 Trial Balloons

Since 1993 what has IBB done to improve himself? Did he go back to school? Has he now got any training in Economics, a Law degree, MBA in Management or other training to convince us that he has now mastered new models and systems to enable him fit into the 21st Century? At least OBJ went to jail. Is IBB the role model I want my son to emulate?

Blood In Politics: Jos like Kenya!

I sat dumbfounded as I watched Jos being set on fire, with innocent Nigerians being massacred. Signs of rigged election! Jos like Kenya!

Brave Voice from the Diaspora – Part 2

Brixton that night was turned into hunting zone. Every moving black man was a suspect. Black men were being hunted down like animals. I would soon fall into the hand of my oppressors. I raved and ranted but the police man would have none of it…

An Attitude of Gratitude

To all who continue to pester me with, “What’s your new year’s resolution,” pay close attention...

Kalu, Orji and non-performance

Instead of working hard to liberate the state from the mess it is in, speculations surround Orji that he is banking money to mobilize the people of the state for the mirage called 2015 elections...

My Neighbour is the Thief

This article is not one of those usual gripes currently associated with discussions about the problems of Nigeria. The truth of the matter is that the current narrative discourse on the trouble with Nigeria, as Chinua Achebe made the characteristic title of his 1983 monograph, has become sickening, disgusting, nauseating, downright annoying and full of rubbish talk...

Issues with the non-passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB

Our emphasis for now should not be on expanding oil and gas production, no. It should be on providing legislation for monies that come in from oil and gas to be spent in repairing the damage to the oil and gas producing areas...

2012: Cries From An Icy Wilderness

The year 2011 was a very bad year for the world economic order. At last, the Europeans discovered that they do not live alone on planet earth. They began to see clearly that their own truths about how the earth should conduct its economic affairs should not be left to their experts alone...