Ikhide, Let us be clear. I was disappointed with your comments a few months ago because you apparently deliberately confused two very different issues, as a means to slander our reputation as[…]
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Culture and Society · Essays/Criticism · Lit Mag · Literature
I Sing Because…: Ikhide Responds to LitMag Editorial
Dear Kola, I am responding a bit belatedly to your editorial, A Bird Sings Because… Many thanks for sharing. Facts are facts and opinions belong to their owner. I generally do not[…]
Editorial #13: A Bird Sings Because…
On November 25th, irrepressible Nigerian writer/critic Ikhide Ikheloa blasted a couple of familiar musings on his social media platforms. One of them went thusly: African literature! In the 21st century, the[…]
Three Poems by Kolade Ajayi
The Bomber Drowned THE BOMBER TOO DROWNED, in his ripple Among the heads, at the belt’s attunement to rage, at the last dead chant– HEAD TO THE SCHEDULED FEAST ON[…]
Editorial #12: Orality and Slices of Nigerian Literary History
One of the major points Chinua Achebe harped on at the beginning of his now famous memoir There Was A Country, common as well to most of his major literary interventions,[…]
Essays/Criticism · Lit Mag · Non-fiction
Ogundare Foyanmun, My Uncle the Poet-Chieftain: In Memoriam
By Peter Akinlabi Let’s begin with the space, for he was a man of immense spatial presence. Big, tall and fearfully dark, he occupied space like he owned it. Language[…]