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Rejecting the Normal
There is a thing about being so close to something that one does not see it anymore. Anthropologists normally refer to it as going native. You have gone native when[…]
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A Lunch in Jos
It didn’t take me long to locate him at Rayfield where he teaches in a private school. Once upon a time, he was in Riyom, a local government that has[…]
olufemi terry//stickfighting days
i read the Caine Prize-winning stickfighting days by olufemi terry yesterday. boy. writing is such an interesting thing. we all have such different psyches, so many different energies and urges[…]
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Nigeria: Goodluck Jonathan on Facebook
The news that President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria had created a Facebook page eventually got to me through Google Buzz where comments had been made to the effect that the[…]
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June 12: Snow White Looked in the Mirror and Saw Shango
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[…]
Review: I Did Not Come to Read You by Chance
A Review of Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani’s I Do Not Come to You by Chance Cassava Republic, 339 pages. Chris Ihidero Two recommendations need to be done with utmost care: a[…]
Storyville: The New Kings of Nigeria
This documentary was more about promoting Walter than about the brain gain of Nigerians returning home to help build the country.
A poem of Lagos
SUFFERING AND SMILING We hold these truths to be self-evident: That where there is a child There must be a cane. That before you make ends meet There will be[…]
So, when are you getting married?
For us Nigerian women there is a huge pressure to tie the knot. Post twenty-five annum, an unmarried status often calls for expressions of concern from family, friends and sometimes[…]
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Obituary: Crocodiles have eaten up the writ of habeas corpus
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[…]