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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...
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...
Competent studies have shown that there is a current problem with the application of the pure forms of Democracy in Emergent Societies, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa.The problem is how to balance between fair systems of letting the citizens determine what government they want against what is truly good for them...
It is true that most of us in Diaspora may not even be registered to vote at home. But we still can do a lot to influence what goes on in our State and country by giving moral and financial support to worthy and deserving candidates...
In Manhattan, New York, a man was juggling barefoot along the street when curiously, a woman asked why. His reply: ‘I want to know how it feels because I am writing a play set in Africa!’
There is a broad alliance between culture, scholarship and imperial physics.Before the West begins their slave merchandise or colonial robbery, or invasion, they start with scholarly misrepresentation of the natives...
It is imperative to subject Genocide’sChild, Dele Olojede’s Pulitzer winning story to metaphysics, psychoanalytic reading and a newer, pro-life criticism. Unlike The Diary of Anne Frank and The Story of Von Trap Family that has become an epic film The Sounds of Music, Genocide Child turns out to be a curiously horrid story of an evil time...
...The point is made in very subtle ways that women writers are a kind of second class citizens who should be kept together, - out of the mainstream - to read and make critical analyses of their own works. In addition, if one were to look at review space on the pages of books, novels by men get better coverage...
...The point is made in very subtle ways that women writers are a kind of second class citizens who should be kept together, - out of the mainstream - to read and make critical analyses of their own works. In addition, if one were to look at review space on the pages of books, novels by men get better coverage...
I became literate in English but remain illiterate in Igbo - my native tongue. I learned Latin - a dead language I would never use in the modern world… Today, there are more English speakers in Nigeria than there are in the United Kingdom…
Why are we so blest? What combination of factors has rendered Nigerians this apathetic, this nonchalant, this indifferent to their degraded condition? In a space where most so-called citizens exist in animal-level states, a country with no healthcare to speak of, a vast toilet of a country where millions defecate in the open...
In Nigeria, one with the benefit of hindsight may realize the missed opportunities in 1960, 1979, 1993 and 1999 to do the proper thing and bequeath to our country a limited but expandable form of democracy...
Policy continuation is something that is lacking in Nigeria . Once a new government takes over power, they usually abandon previous governmental policies or programs...
Now some people are not wired the same way we are. For them, and unfortunately, their parentage may have been responsible for their being born with irregular mental and sometimes physical and emotional morphology...
The trajectory of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety...
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