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Beyonce Samples Chimamanda Adichie

Culture and Society · Essays · opinion

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Beyonce’s “Back-that-*ss-Up” Feminism

  • January 2, 2014

Maybe I should be grateful to Beyonce for giving African feminists a trojan horse delivery method for our most subversive ideas: juxtaposed to an overtly sexual personage, inoculating the listener against both the anti-feminism of the image and the actual power and import of the feminist message.

Arts · Essays · opinion · Writing

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Be Your Own Binyavanga

  • December 30, 2013

“Don’t be a fucking victim. You can’t be living in the age of Google and cheap internet where you can find out the resources available to you as a young African writer through the social network and other avenues, waiting for your father to make the policy or arrangements for you is immoral. In fact it is evil. It’s your job to make it.”

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Arts · Culture and Society · Film · opinion

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Video Vixens, Nigerian Pop, and Nollywood

  • October 28, 2013

In America, video vixens are staples of Hip Hop music videos. Video vixens are the curvaceous ladies who sashay across television screens in skimpy attire and often serve no other[…]

Arts · Culture and Society · Literature · opinion

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Open Letter to Nigerian News Sites

  • August 24, 2013

by Damola Fakunle I am writing to you as a concerned Nigerian nineteen year old. After having visited your website, I find it disconcerting that there is scant mention of[…]

Arts · Culture and Society · Film · opinion

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Introducing New NT Contributor Mafoya

  • June 16, 2013

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[…]

Essays/Criticism · Lit Mag · Literature · opinion

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The Travails of Logan – A Review of “Foreign Aid”

  • June 2, 2013

by Kola Tubosun I began reading this story with trepidation, and a worry that after reading Elnathan John’s “Bayan Layi” which moved me in a disturbing yet endearing way, and Tope Folarin’s “Miracle”,[…]

Arts · Culture and Society · opinion · Perpectives

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The Goldie Metaphor

  • March 2, 2013

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[…]

Analysis · Columnists · Issues · opinion · Perpectives

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Notes On Rape

  • January 10, 2013

  Since I heard about the gang rape of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi, India has been on my mind. The woman was on her way home from the cinema with a[…]

Column · Issues · opinion

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Calabar Carnival – A Displeasing Trend

  • January 10, 2013

by Enigbe Solabomi On December 27th, I was scrolling through my blackberry contacts when the display picture of one of my contacts caught my eye. It was the picture of a[…]

Culture and Society · Essays/Criticism · Lit Mag · Literature · Non-fiction · opinion · Writing

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RE: A Bird Sings Because… by Jeremy Weate

  • December 3, 2012

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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