Position Papers

El Anatsui: Beyond Bottle Caps and Glory

A Review of El Anatsui: The Man, the Myth, the Legend at 80 and Counting (2026) By Chris Uchenna Agbedo, PhD, fnias, mnal. Preamble “Beyond Bottle Caps...

Restructuring Internal Party Democracy: The Farce of Nigerian Primaries and a Blueprint for Reform – The Crisis of Credibility

For decades, the political narrative across Africa has been dominated by a single, unyielding aspiration: the adoption of Western-style democracy. It is a desirable...

The Bastard Fathers of Modern-Day Democracy and Politics in Nigeria

By Paul Okojie Modern democracy in Nigeria was born out of struggle, sacrifice, and blood. Yet, what was envisioned as a government of the people,...

Bracing Up For Self Sustenance

You can enter any business at any level as long as you bring with it innovation which is the edge and quality service delivery. Never enter any venture without these two things or you will fail sooner than you think...

Failures of the Intellectual: Barack Obama, Black Agency, and the Burden of History

“No, you can’t!” has, for five centuries, been the life-force of modernity’s negation of black agency. The Obama sign offers a choric, antiphonal negation of an original negation...

An Open Letter to Mr. Inye Harry

I do not know you. You do not know me. In other words, I am writing this letter to you because you have made statements that affect me. You have told lies against a man you knew nothing about. You have dragged his name in the mud...

An Open Letter to Mr. Inye Harry (2)

I do not know you. You do not know me. In other words, I am writing this letter to you because you have made statements that affect me. You have told lies against a man you knew nothing about. You have dragged his name in the mud...

Pavlovian Affairs: The Quest for Mans’ Mind and Life Imitating Art

Very often the media has worked ‘hand in glove’ with politicians, governments, big businesses and religious organisations to shape the thinking of their intended audiences. These special interest groups, without exception, are driven by a desire to dominate the collective mindset of mankind in their quest for untrammelled power...

Black Pride

How could the black race advance or claim any sort of authenticity when it is losing its language, culture, religion, history or education. Whatever education we credit ourselves with did not stem from the black race…

The Balance of Our Stories

It is a great time to be a connoisseur of Nigerian literature. There are all these Nigerian writers doing some really exciting work and there are not enough hours in the day to consume all their wares...

The Balance of Our Stories (2)

It is a great time to be a connoisseur of Nigerian literature. There are all these Nigerian writers doing some really exciting work and there are not enough hours in the day to consume all their wares...

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