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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…
Our problem started right from the time Nigeria was set free. Going by all records and accounts, Nigeria no doubt had well-meaning and intelligent politicians then but the virile seeds of discord were not absent. Tribalism and nepotism bared their fangs...
Conflict is one of the major concerns not only in any given continent, it also affects the international community as well. Conflict is simply the absence of peace, and the successive introduction of diversified sense of humor of people within the context of a community or society...
When I came into the UK about 8 years ago, advisers - and they are many, very cunning, comical Nigerians, full of filthy lies - told me that marriage here is 50-50, the man brings 50%, the woman, 50%...
As an introspective person, you have a rare opportunity that Providence grants few in their lifetimes to do well and affect the collective destinies of multitudes of persons. By now, you are inundated by the enormity of the royal mess left behind by your predecessors in office as leaders of Nigeria…
For all the rants of Nigerian conservatives, nationalist groups and patriotic citizens, the pride of the Nigerian republic takes a back seat to the pride of the Oron, Efut, Efik and other local peoples. How do we tell our brothers and sisters from the Niger Delta that we care when we are so willing to let go of the soil that is under their feet?
I never met Ojukwu when he was alive. But every historian and other researchers worth their brief know that you need not know your subject personally to write about him or her...
I must say, after reading The Virgin of Flames that I heartily recommend it to all lovers of good literature. This book is a delightful riot of sizzling prose, robust poetry and keep-me-up-at-night issues...
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