Courtesy Vanguard Nigeria The history of Nigeria has for too long been like a bad Nollywood movie. Nigeria is that battered housewife who has taken her beatings quietly, allowed her earnings to be squandered by her wasteful, alcoholic, extravagant, unworthy [...]
Perspectives is a monthly column featuring guest posts from non-Nigerians who follow political and cultural happenings in Nigeria. The columnist this month is Femke van Zeijl. 1. Surround myself with true friends who will tell me that I am full [...]
Perspectives is a monthly column featuring guest posts from non-Nigerians who follow political and cultural happenings in Nigeria. This month, Jim de Wilde puts forth a model for how Nigeria can make the most out of its relationship with China. Imagine a [...]
NigeriansTalk started a new feature in June where we feature monthly guest posts from non-Nigerians who follow Nigerian politics and cultural happenings. We hope this will liven up the site by giving you an outside-the-country point-of-view on Nigeria, and hopefully [...]
Starting in June, NigeriansTalk will feature monthly guest posts from non-Nigerians who follow Nigerian politics and cultural happenings. We hope this will liven up the site by giving you an outside the country point-of-view on Nigeria, and hopefully make you [...]
I saw poster of I See Lagos a few weeks ago when I was visiting family, but, thanks to Emeka Okafor‘s blog Africa Unchained, I now know what it is. Heh. It’s weird how you can always tell when a [...]
It is with more than a pang of regret that I acknowledge that I do not understand Yoruba. OK, that’s not entirely true. After all, there is nothing you can say to me in Yoruba that I won’t understand. There [...]
The following was cross-posted at my blog Method to the Madness. The Nigerian #WhatAboutUs Presidential debate left me cold, and it’s taken me a couple of days to understand why. Let’s forget for one moment the question of whether or [...]
Some folks have started getting queasy about inroads being made into the Nigerian film industry by Ghanaian actors. First it was the Ghanaian superstar Van Vicker getting slammed with $2,000 per fee to make him more expensive to hire, now [...]
(Cross-posted at my blog Method to the Madness) Abena P.A. Busia has a speech at a forum on the representation of Nigerian women in the Nigerian film industry that’s worth a read. This, on the Nigerian film industry in general, [...]
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