Arts & Books

The Journey: Pursuit of Purpose Storified by Stanley Ohanugo; BrandZilla Technologies Limited, Nigeria; 2021; 188pp The best way a man can arrest the world is through the story he tells. …

A seemingly innocuous spark in an otherwise isolated part of a nation can change the course of history. Nigerian history as we have it today owes its shape to the …

By Yusiff Nanah Charm Kamara   I stumbled on Odili Ujubuonu’s “Crows of the Yellow Stream” on Amazon. I was instantly drawn to the word “Crows” in its title. These birds have …

Writers can kill. The creative writer plays God by creating people on paper and destroying lives at will with an ordinary pencil or pen or a computer. The power of …

Drama And Theatre In Nigeria: A Critical Source Book Edited By Yemi Ogunbiyi; Second Edition; Tanus Books Limited, Lagos; 2014; First Published 1981; 736pp   The handsome young lecturer ambled …

The Yoruba: A New History by Akinwumi Ogundiran; Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, USA; 2020; 532pp   It strikes me as not very funny that there was a time when …

It is difficult to believe that forty years had swept by since the death of the legendary master, Bob Marley. Yes, Robert Nesta Marley, universally known and adored as Bob …

The Okigbo mystique Sometime in 2015, some young poets undertook a pilgrimage to River Idoto, a muddy-colored river in Ojoto in Anambra State, Southeastern Nigeria. Among them were Chuma Nwokolo, …

Reflections on Nigerian Movie Industry: Salute to Pioneering Creativity and Perseverance by Femi Akintunde-Johnson; Basic Skills Academy (ISBN 978-1-716-08239-9); 2021; 158pp    Nigeria is celebrated across the globe as being …

Movie-making in Nigeria, a story already long and winding, is nevertheless young and evolving. Like the proverbial elephant in the grip of blind men, perspective impacts and shifts the narrative, …

The “Within the Trees” workshop, March 19 – 21 2021 took place in Oshogbo Osun state. It was organised by Tantdile, an experimental hub put in place by James Not’in …

A do-gooder told his landlord that any tenant who sends the police after the owner of the house “is capable of killing you.” This selfsame Tenant Do-Good not only called …

The iroko stands tall and mighty, stretching its boughs across the firmament. The song of the heart is in arresting dialogue with the iroko, the one tree that makes the …

Ojukwu: The ‘Rebel’ I Served by Uche Ezechukwu; ThoniMartins Ltd, Abuja, Benin, Lagos; 2012 Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu almost always dominated all discourse in the course of his journey on earth. In …

Everyone even the consumers of the biggest heap of pounded cassava were proved wrong by the Indomie-Generation in the events of October, 2020 in Nigeria when young people organized themselves …

Waterman by Echezonachukwu Nduka; Griots Lounge Publishing Winnipeg, MB, Canada; 2020; 96pp  Devotion to poetry is a life sentence. Echezonachukwu Nduka is a lifer. In the prison of poetry, true …