Na The Same Mama Born Dem
Na from airport I don begin smell God hand for this country. The kind breeze wey blow me after wey I commot for the aeroplane na better fine breeze wey just cool my body well well…
How Do You Live With Fear?
Americans and indeed people of other nationalities living in different cities
across America are afraid. We are all still locked in an inner struggle between our rational and usual way of life and strange but understandable propensity to
yield to a dull but now constant fear and panic.
New York State of Mind
I thank God for my country, Nigeria. I thank God that my country is so "Third World" that we have not been able to make an enemy big enough to plan a Sept. 11…
Monkey Pepper Soup
Come on, Harry, It's a dog eat dog world. Just as America occasionally feasts on lesser nations, we eat lesser creatures. Try the monkey pepper soup. It's unbeatable.
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…
How To Be An African
The white man is happy however that he can take over the world technologically, morally and now culturally. And we are very much part of the blame…
Soyinka's Other Gift to the World
Humanity may be messy, but it is intrinsically noble, and its existence is justified by certain inalienable rights. Any attempt to demean these rights in any one single individual or group, by an act of political or religious dogmatism, is an affront on the whole community, and should be so perceived and resisted.
The Writer and the Global Frontier (2)
A lot of us will never live fully in Africa again. Many people in my daughter’s generation will probably grow up with only the idea of Africa…
The Writer and the Global Frontier
A lot of us will never live fully in Africa again. Many people in my daughter’s generation will probably grow up with only the idea of Africa…