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Yewande Omotosho, a Nigerian-Barbadian, naturalised South African Citizen, is among the four female writers who have since commenced the March-April 2013 Ebedi Residency in Iseyin, Oyo State. The Cape Town,[…]
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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[…]
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Mafoya Doussoumon is the thirty-one year old author of a fascinating new book of essays titled African Expectations (Available on Amazon.com). I caught up with him for a one-one-one. _______ Tell[…]
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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[…]
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[…]
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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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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[…]
Regardless of whether it was given to him as a gift by his congregants or he somehow gave it to himself, it’s safe to say that the President of the[…]
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Uche is the author of two collections of poem: Dark through the Delta, and Aridity of Feelings; a short story collection Tears in Her Eyes, and two children’s fiction: Sam[…]
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It was with utter astonishment that the audience at Kofar Sauri Sharia court in Katsina on that fateful afternoon earlier this month, listened to the 12 year old pupil, Sani[…]