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,...

Countering Nigeria’s Anti-Intellectualism (2)

Nigeria has not developed a culture of celebrating honest, hard-working achievers. Instead we have allowed others to foist upon us a paradoxical anti-intellectual situation in which recognition, indeed the highest National honors, are heaped on former military dictators for shooting themselves into power and looting the national treasury...

Countering Nigeria’s Anti-Intellectualism

Nigeria has not developed a culture of celebrating honest, hard-working achievers. Instead we have allowed others to foist upon us a paradoxical anti-intellectual situation in which recognition, indeed the highest National honors, are heaped on former military dictators for shooting themselves into power and looting the national treasury...

Nigerians Against Fatwa on Isioma Daniel

The Federal Government and its officers will stand charge of complicity and dereliction of duty should it fail to condemn this fatwa imposed on a Nigerian citizen...

The Black Consciousness Movement in South African Literature (2)

Perhaps the antecedents of any serious modern black South African literary production could be located in the fifties when political repression was at its most physically visible...

The Black Consciousness Movement in South African Literature

Perhaps the antecedents of any serious modern black South African literary production could be located in the fifties when political repression was at its most physically visible...

The Tempest: Colonial Encounters and Gendered Readings

Since most contemporary receptions of The Tempest from Lamming to Skura are politicised one should attempt to locate them within the Colonial/Post-Colonial dialectics in order to properly apprehend traditional criticism.

The Tempest: Colonial Encounters and Gendered Readings (2)

Since most contemporary receptions of The Tempest from Lamming to Skura are politicised one should attempt to locate them within the Colonial/Post-Colonial dialectics in order to properly apprehend traditional criticism.

The Tempest: Colonial Encounters and Gendered Readings (3)

Since most contemporary receptions of The Tempest from Lamming to Skura are politicised one should attempt to locate them within the Colonial/Post-Colonial dialectics in order to properly apprehend traditional criticism.

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