Debunking persistent myths and showcasing that Africans had developed complex art and systems prior to slavery and colonialism. At last, quintessential Nigerian art may return home where it belongs in …
Arts & Books
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If you do not tell the truth about what you know and understand about yourself, then others may tell lies based on what they neither know, nor understand about you. …
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In 1992, the world of music changed and civility in the arts became a pejorative, as the once unacceptable and inflammatory content of hardcore rap valorizing misogynistic, homophobic, gangster and …
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Last Friday, my wife and I traveled from New York City to Canton, upstate New York State, the location of St. Lawrence University. We were fortunate to be invited to …
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The name Prince Tonye Princewill does not need any introduction to any person who has been a keen observer of the political milieu or terrain in the Niger Delta region …
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Prince had wanted to be something other, to be in some place other, and to feel something other but that other zone was always non-descript and politically vacuous. In abdicating …
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Magic System is an international African musical group made in Anoumabo in Marcory district of Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. Twenty years ago, four young boys — Asalfo, Goude, Tino and Manadja …
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Whether Americans or Africans, my friends reacted in much the same way when I disclosed I was headed for Hargeysa, the capital of Somaliland, to participate in an international book …
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One of the special joys of my time in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts was taking a fiction workshop with Tamas Aczel. It was during the spring …
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A letter is often a method or means of communication between two or more persons. Once penned and signed by the encoder, a letter becomes an extension of the soul …
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A lot of people who consider themselves ‘serious minded’ claim that they do not watch Big Brother Africa as it is a waste of time; promotes immorality; and does not …
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A child is engaged with words than reading and this comes even with the child’s first days in school. Processing the child’s thoughts and actions in communication analysis are at …
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Okey Ndibe, your article on how Chinua Achebe saved you from James Hadley Chase makes me put on a green and white thinking hat. Achebe you said awakened your cultural …
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Two Saturdays ago, I had the privilege of giving a keynote at an international conference organized at the Senate House of the University of London to celebrate the 50th anniversary …
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Film, as the word implies, is defined as a thin sheet or strip of flexible material, such as a cellulose derivative or a thermoplastic resin, coated with a photosensitive emulsion …
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It is an indelible historical fact that Nigerian political development has been shaped by chance happenings, of unprepared leaders accidentally jumping onto the stage, rigging themselves into high political offices, …