Jude Idada’s Oduduwa: King of the Edos – A Review
By Femi Morgan Jude Idada’s epic play challenge readers to reconsider history. It pries out lessons of good leadership, governance, social and moral values from narratives. It also urges us[…]
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On Race, Hair, and Chimamanda Adichie’s ‘Americanah’
Book Review by Blessing Omakwu When I heard Chimamanda Adichie was writing a new book that drew heavily from hair and race as themes, I was excited for two[…]
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Now That Dreams Are Born
by Sunmaila Umaisha (IFY OMALICHA’s collection of poems, Now that dreams are Born, published by Kraftgriots, 2011, p.141.) The Nigerian literary scene is fast becoming famous for churning out promising[…]
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[…]
The Reification of Julius: Reflections on Open City
by Adebiyi Olusolape He is the blacksmith of heaven, the one who molds the heads of new born babes. All the normal and special features of human beings used to[…]
Nigerian Elections · Politics · Review
Nigeria: Definitely time to give June 12 a decent burial
Making history history On June 12 2011, I wrote a piece titled Nigeria: Time to give June 12 a decent burial [1] for a number of reasons which already appear[…]
Nigerian Elections · Politics · Review
Nigeria: Time to give June 12 a decent burial
Yes, the hope died June the Twelfth, 1993 has for years been marked as the day that Nigeria’s hopes for democracy died or as Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa would have[…]