The Internet of Trolls: #TrollCabal and the Civic Commons
By Yemi Adesanya The internet provides access to a sea of information and affords everyone an opportunity to communicate with almost anyone anywhere in the world. An undergraduate in[…]
Author: Baroka
Waiting for Caine 2013
by Kola Tubosun What will the Caine Prize judges be looking for this year? Topicality? Politics? Dexterity? Profundity? Conflict? Emotion? Complexity? Looking at a set of shortlisted stories that[…]
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Editorial #4: Sandwich and Other Stories
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[…]
Editorial · Lit Mag · Non-fiction
Editorial #1: First Steps
“In the beginning was the word,” and it has defined everything else. We will return to this sentence time and time again, but for now, it serves as a good[…]
Economy · Technology · World Affairs
The Nigerian Prince
by Kola Tubosun
On “being” the relative of a dead prince
On Dangerous Revolutionaries
There is a curious pattern of dangerous behaviour now coming out of the Libyan revolt against the government of Moamar Gaddafi. In this frightening CNN report, rebel soldiers looking to exact[…]
Arts · Culture and Society · Film · Literature · Review
A Review of “The Help”
Sometime ago in May, at a house party in a friend’s house – an artist, I found myself seated around a table with a few elderly women who grew up[…]
In Defence of NYSC
Tragedy is a depressant, often leading people overcome by emotions to the wrong and often very hasty resolutions. Like all observers of the aftermath of last week’s presidential elections in[…]
Happy International Women’s Day
I realize it’s one day late. Here is to the women on the 100th International Women’s Day 2011. Special regards to all our women contributors on Nigerianstalk, and to all[…]
On the Murder of David Kato, the Ugandan Gay Rights Campaigner
This is a press release by Writers and Academics Against Homophobia. Feel free to append your signatures in the comment section, and to share this petition through your social networks. _________________________________[…]