Tag Archives: Art

A — Z Life Lesons by Tolulope Akanni

Tolu Akanni describes him­self as “a vision­ary and dynamic youth with a rare and unique pas­sion sent on a mis­sion to bring out the best in peo­ple to the end of see­ing men live up to their full capac­ity.” He is a blog­ger I first encoun­tered through his place at El Fiz Con­cept. I liked …

August 25, 2010 – 3:38 am | By myne | Posted in Culture and Society, General | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

“Minstrelsy” — Fela Versus Broadway — The Charles Isherwood Review

I was told this blog post deserved a larger (Niger­ian) audi­ence — cross-posted here NYT the­ater critic, Charles Ish­er­wood, fires the first vol­ley in the Fela! back­lash, and I must say about time too; like a Barack Obama inevitably los­ing some lus­ter, i thought the back­lash against Fela! was also inevitable; the more rave reviews a …

February 20, 2010 – 5:52 pm | By Bunmi Oloruntoba | Posted in Culture and Society, General | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | View Comments

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 …

March 30, 2009 – 6:37 am | By nigerianstalk | Posted in Culture and Society | Tagged , , , , , , , | View Comments