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Arts · Culture and Society · Film · opinion
The team here at NigeriansTalk is excited to present our new contributor Mafoya Dossoumon. He was born and raised in Benin Republic. He lived briefly in France with his parents as[…]
At a meeting in the early 1960s, the leaders of a poor nation just exiting colonial rule gaily informed colleagues visiting from another developing country how well they were doing[…]
If you have ever listened to Professor Chukwuma Soludo bring abstract economic concepts to life with PowerPoint slides extravagantly peppered with charts and projections, you’d understand how he managed to[…]
Culture and Society · Literature
Farafina is proud to announce the Nigerian edition of AMERICANAH, the highly anticipated novel by award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Release date is April 21, 2013 in Lagos. In the[…]
Between 1951 and 1966, when Nigeria practiced a parliamentary system of government, there were two houses of parliaments in the three – later four – regions. These were the Houses[…]
At a car wash recently, I watched with astonishment as a car was emptied of debris while the interior was being cleaned. One after the other came bottles of cough[…]
Arts · Culture and Society · opinion · Perpectives
by Dami Ajayi Dying young is becoming fashionable. I can’t seem to think of a better kind of death for a creative individual though. Imagine not having to grow grey[…]
A common thread to the indignation that greeted Mr. Nasir El Rufai’s now infamous re/tweet is “can a Christian say something insulting about Prophet Mohammed (SAW) without Muslims embarking on a[…]
On Wednesday February 5, British MPs voted on the question of whether or not to legalize same sex marriage. After a mostly civil five-hour debate, the legislation, proposed by Culture[…]
The controversy triggered by Mallam Nasir el-Rufai’s comments about Jesus Christ on Twitter is instructive on several levels. Here, I shall limit myself to two immediate implications. In the first[…]