Chielozona Eze

Nigerian writer and philosopher, I teach African and World literatures at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. Visit my blog.

Africa’s elite and the Western media

I see no reason why the tide of bad news in Nigeria can not be stopped. Perhaps all it takes is a change of heart that begins with a radical rejection of the thought that the West is only interested in grubbing in the African compost...

Thoughts on the Nigerian Mentality: Combative Mode

Can my enemy or my former enemy ever be right? Can he posses a smidgen of truth? The answer to this question might well reside on whether we are able to reboot and let go of our corrosive state of injury...

The Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature and the Nigerian Love of Exclusion

It is mind-boggling that a Continent that has still a lot of spaces to make up for in excellence, smuggles through the backdoor silly exclusionary clauses that end up making parts of its constituencies feel unwanted...

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