Obtaining a Handle on the Domestic Economy
The Sallah holiday weekend was usual in many ways. Electricity supply was epileptic. The fuel scarcity has held out long enough for an ecosystem to evolve on its back. Long[…]
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,[…]
Spending Our Way into a New Bind
“The more things change, the more they stay the same”. Thus, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, commenting several years ago on the infinite capacity of our species to generate motion that leads[…]
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[…]
Casino Pentecostalism – Ebenezer Obadare
There is a new game in town. It involves- no garlands for guessing- the Redeemed Christian Church of God. But I err. Actually, it’s not a new game. What is[…]
Achebe and the Myth of Nigerian Exceptionalism
It has been only a few weeks since the prolific and renowned author, Professor Chinua Achebe’s personal account of the 1967 Nigerian Civil War, “There Was a Country” was published,[…]
How Come I Missed the President’s Budget 2013 Speech
It was about 10.00am Wednesday last week that a friend reminded me that Mr. President was before a joint session of the National Assembly outlining his administration’s tax and spending[…]
Nigeria: What Does The Future Hold?
As the news filter through the media spaces one always hopes to hear good news but the reverse has been the case in my country, Nigeria, in the last couple[…]
Kannywood, the growth of a Nigerian language industry – Carmen McCain
Perspectives is a monthly column featuring guest posts from non-Nigerians who follow political and cultural happenings in Nigeria. The columnist this month is Carmen McCain Recent statistics from the Nigerian National Film[…]