Editorial #3: The Language of Thought
This week’s offerings, short, traverse a realm of experimentations. In Teju Cole’s Kadara Kekeke, the writer’s pithy twitter-based news-based literature take on new outlooks in the clothes of its local[…]
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Kádàrá Kékèké
Láti parapọ pẹlú àwọn abánisèdè mi, n’go kọ gbogbo àwọn “kádàrá kékèké” l’énìí l’édè wa tó l’éwà, Yorùbá. —Teju Cole (March 1, 2012) 1 N’ílùú Èkó, Peter fún arábirin[…]
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Weekly Ten: Ojukwu Laid To Rest
ONE: James Ibori, former governor of Delta state has pleaded guilty in a UK court to 10 counts of money-laundering and conspiracy to defraud. The British police accuse him of[…]
HEALTH SPOTLIGHT: ABIYE
Ondo State, three years ago had the highest maternal mortality rates in the southwest region of Nigeria. At the time, the landscape of the country was littered with mothers bleeding[…]
CHEWING ON THE BONES OF MIGRATION: A Review of Unoma Azuah’s “Edible Bones”
By Yomi Ogunsanya A moment after I finished reading Unoma Azuah’s latest novel Edible Bones, the following lines from T.S. Eliot’s Little Gidding wafted into my mind: “What we call the[…]
Fiction · Lit Mag · Non-fiction
Cellphone Conversation with Papalolo
by Ikhide Ikheloa – Ring! Ring!! Ring!!! – Hello! Who is that? – Papa! It is me! Your son! – I say who is that? – It is me! Your[…]
Analysis · General · Politics · World Affairs
African Leaders and Free Lunches
The popular adage “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” kept crossing my mind in the run-up to the just concluded London Conference on Somalia. I wondered why[…]
This Budget Must Not Pass!
Ever since the details of the 2012 budget were released, Nigerians have been treated to a lot of comedy and melodrama regarding the budget items. Besides the perennial lop-sidedness of[…]
Where Are The True Leaders?
Escalating insecurity and public fear…sporadic policy creation…the glaring and widening gulf between the governing and governed… the appalling hurl of money at pressing national issues…the suspected lack of foresight…the near-death[…]
Reading Nigeria
Perspectives is a monthly column featuring guest posts from non-Nigerians who follow political and cultural happenings in Nigeria. The columnist this month is Amy McKie. Often times in our lives[…]