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,...

Democracy, The Case For Transparency And Accountability In Emerging Societies; Nigeria As A Case Study (2)

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...

Meeting Olu Agbesua

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...

Why Zuma Monument Must Stay

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!

Edward Said And Madagascar

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...

Critical Perspectives on Dele Olojede’s Pulitzer Story

It is imperative to subject Genocides Child, Dele Olojedes 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...

Writing The Wrongs In Publishing: Empowering Women Through Publishing

...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...

Writing The Wrongs In Publishing: Empowering Women Through Publishing (2)

...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...

Globalization Not New; Look at Slave Trade

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…

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