I often run into a fascinating interesting dilemma of sorts whenever I read and edit submissions to this magazine. Do I turn “favour” into “favor” as my spell-checker suggests; neighbour to “neighbor” and labour to “labor”? After all, such decisions are usually based upon the sole discretion of the imperial editor, he himself taking a cue from the rules set [...]

We begin here: sandwich. This is only because Ikhide Ikheloa’s Oporoko Chronicles walks the margins of our sense of taste, humour, family, mischief, and imagination. Far from his equally brilliant and refreshing response to the mostly insensitive response of African intellectuals to the Kony 2012 viral video, the writer takes us on a trip through the quotidian rote of a generic [...]

This week’s offerings, short, traverse a realm of experimentations. In Teju Cole’s Kadara Kekeke, the writer’s pithy twitter-based news-based literature take on new outlooks in the clothes of its local tongue. A recent twitter quasi-protest to bring Yoruba into the global arena of the social media platform has tweeters from Nigeria writing in Yoruba for one day. More on that [...]

Last week, Temie Giwa’s Road to Kigali re-imagined African life as a series of journeys, with a welcome tribute to my poem Be Like The Road. Rwanda’s return to normalcy from the post-genocide period of the early 90s comes back to us through the writer’s eyes and poetic tribute. It was preceded by Olumide Abimbola’s morose telling of the mind of [...]

When you look at the issue of fuel subsidy in Nigeria against the indeterminate cost and the proliferation of refineries everywhere but in Nigeria where the petroleum is produced, it raises a number of pertinent questions about the honest brokerage of our government.

by Akin Akintayo
Last week the Nigerian Senate debated the Same Gender Marriage (Prohibition) Bill 2011 which passed its second reading and it has now moved to committee stage, however, the fact is Nigeria does not need such a law because there is no prospect of homosexuality gaining any normalcy in the society because the concept of same-sex marriage can take root.

by Akin Akintayo
President Goodluck Jonathan gave a speech at an interdenominational service celebrating the 51st Independence anniversary of Nigeria and it was replete with utterly dreadful analogies – it was awful, awful, awful.

This blog was first published as Editorial: Pretentious Righteous Indignation at http://akinblog.nl The Nigerian Youth Facebook once again presents the context of this editorial where I got involved in a conversation that pertained to an invitation that soon to be inaugurated president of Nigeria extended to the youth to join him for lunch. There are many easy angles to the [...]