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 to widen access to works [...]

A review of blogs on the rebranding Nigeria campaign

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 Economy, he discusses the [...]

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 people. Over the past week, [...]

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 the blogosphere in order to [...]