Arts & Books

My Darling Sunshine: I hope you are swimming in the ocean of good health. If so, doxology! You are the only sugar in my tea, the sum of all my …

The request from my reader was short and sharp: “Let’s have your piece on James Hadley Chase all over.” The reader was so insistent that I could not but have …

Cyclone by Obu Udeozo; Fab Educational Books, Jos; 316pp The strange feeling of déjà vu that accompanies anyone who is conversant with Obu Udeozo’s works when he picks up Cyclone …

The renowned Nigeria Actor of Nollywood fame, Pete Edochie, was forced a few days ago, to go on air, to offer explanations, on why he took up a role, in …

I should have been a comedian. Poetry is poverty. Comedy is cash. I have been around long enough to know the gnashing of teeth that goes with bearing the toga …

The news all over town is that there is raunchy sex going on in the Big Brother Naija house. It’s as though the housemates dearly need to have Nackson the …

Professor Pius Adebola Adesanmi belongs to the class of people larger than life and death. When news filtered out that he was one of the 159 casualties of the Sunday, …

The 21 books came to me in two gift paper-bags from the scholar Udenta O. Udenta. The priceless present came along with a 34-page “Guide To The 21 Book Project” …

ENIGMATA (TO WOLE SOYINKA @ 70) You hated fruitless journeys abroad, yetAligned into a wasted generation at home: Preferred Kafka quaffed in straight draughtsYet stooped to housebreak Euripides for us: …

Living Dreams by Obu Udeozo; Fab Educational Books, Jos, Nigeria; 2020; 326pp Obu Udeozo has earned high accolades as a prolific poet in Nigeria, remarkably winning the Pat Utomi Book …