Monthly Archives: March 2009

Literature is a Minority Affair

A review of Niger­ian lit­er­ary blogs by Akin­labi of Ayemidun. Lit­er­a­ture is always a minor­ity affair. Even in the blo­gos­phere where we are con­tin­u­ally inun­dated with mas­sive pro­lif­er­a­tion of voices and con­cerns. Yet, a lit­er­ary blog posses more dan­ger to struc­tured schol­ar­ship than any other kind of blog. The idea of a lit­er­ary blog is

Rebranding Nigeria: Blox Populi

A review of blogs on the rebrand­ing Nige­ria campaign

The Nigerian Economy According to Bloggers

This is a review of a few, selected, blog posts that dis­cussed the Niger­ian econ­omy in the week that ended on March 14, 2009. Man­asseh Egedegbe of the Stock Mar­ket blog at www.stockmarketnigeria.com says there is a sil­ver lin­ing in the Niger­ian econ­omy. In a post that he aptly titled A Sil­ver Lin­ing in the Niger­ian

Tough times, Hideous Conservativism, and That Thing Around Your Neck

Appar­ently tough times are ahead, accord­ing to imnakoya’s March 6th post on the wan­ing of the excess crude fund account. In light of a pos­si­bly tenous finan­cial future, solomon­sy­delle, remains con­cerned about rumors to replace cur­rent Cen­tral Bank of Nige­ria gov­er­nor, Charles Soludo, with Yar’adua’s fla­grantly unqual­i­fied son-in-law, Isa Yuguda. Tough times call for extra­or­di­nary

Listen Up!

Nige­ri­ans talk.  We all know it — from the office, to the mar­ket­place, to the vil­lage and from the city — we Nige­ri­ans make it a point to have our voices heard.  While we con­tinue to make use of tra­di­tional means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, a grow­ing num­ber of Nige­ri­ans, young and old, are tak­ing advan­tage of