Nollywood for Human Rights
Note: This post was written last week A more specific title would be ‘Nollywood for Child Rights, Women’s Rights and Against Human Trafficking’. For those of you who don’t know,[…]
Category: Essays
Culture and Society · Essays · General
Why there will be crap on Nigerian television for a long time to come (Part 2)
See the first part here In my previous article of the same title, I attempted a backgrounding of the many issues that have made it impossible for quality programming to[…]
Why there will be crap on Nigerian television for a long time to come (part 1)
I am sitting cross-legged in my sitting room, staring at my blank television screen. It is blank because I have refused to switch it on. Television is very important to[…]
Culture and Society · Economy · Essays · Politics
In Jos and Maiduguri ‘Religion is 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 · Essays · Politics
Jos and Maiduguri Attacks: If not ethno-religious, then what?
Yomi Ogunsanya For the umpteenth time, on Christmas Eve last year, the city of Jos, Plateau State’s capital, made the headline for another wrong reason: a series of bomb explosions[…]
Culture and Society · Essays · Politics
Remembering Ken
Temie Giwa “He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry When I[…]