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Culture and Society · General · Literature · Politics
Peeping Dom ‘Wiping the unbelieving suds from his eyes, Dominique peeped once more through the judas hole in the bathroom door. He saw the panty-hosed assassin sent by Nicolas lean[…]
Culture and Society · Economy · Essays · Politics
Benson Eluma A rejoinder to Yomi Ogunsanya’s Jos and Maiduguri Attacks: If not ethno-religious, then what? Well Yomi, I believe that there is more going on in different parts of[…]
Culture and Society · Nigeria@50
by Benson Eluma I have cast around for how best to characterize Nigerian literature 50 years after Independence, and I have decided to settle for the Abiku motif. Abiku or[…]
A review of Olufemi Terry’s short story ‘Stickfighting Days’ which won the 2010 Caine Prize This stark story of primitive violence has to it the quality of elemental fable. It[…]
Culture and Society · Politics
I don’t know which to pick between May 29 and June 12 as the worst date to look forward to in our political calendar. I don’t know which is, to[…]
Culture and Society · Politics
Now that we are done with crocodile tears (genuine grief is never done with so fast), it is time for some brutality. We are like the ancients who said: De[…]
Among other things, I can understand why so many Nigerians should think that ‘District 9′ shows how deeply some South Africans detest us. The lumpen elements in the film are[…]