Arts & Books

Only a decade and half ago, most of what constituted entertainment on television in Africa were B-grade Hollywood and Bollywood movies. Contrast that with now. African movies are everywhere. The …

It’s quite painful that unlike the popular notion that our leaders don’t understand the plights of the masses, our singers too are demonstrating the same brutish approach in tackling their …

In life and six feet below the ground, Fela Anikulapo Kuti remains an enigma to be decoded to many and mystery to be unraveled by both his fans and detractors…

He will saunter into his own event as if he was only invited like many others in the audience. Always clutching a novel, you get the impression that he is …

Professors Abi Adegboye and Ibiyemi Dare have written a most fascinating account on how life is lived in Western Nigeria in the book, Owanbe! Yoruba Celebrations of Life…

This is an eclectic collection of short stories offering ample evidence that African literature is alive and well. New talent rises every day from the dawn of yesterday’s departure. It …

British Broadcasting Corporation 2 deserves special commendation for finding time, resources and manpower that went to Nigeria to do such an eye opening documentary…

Nollywood has amazing potential. For the industry to be truly viable, it will require a deft understanding of a specifically targeted niche market in the United States. It will take …

I had barely sat down.  Hadn’t even had time to take the first sip of my coffee when this man planted himself in the chair directly opposite me.   It was …

Somebody should have told me way back that I’ll someday carry burdens like Atlas of ancient Greece which no one can help offload from my heart. For if I had …

Our rage is misplaced; all over Africa our political and intellectual leaders are hard at work trying to convince the world that we are sub-humans. Yet, when we are called …

Chika Unigwe’s book is a story of modern slave trade and a must read for everyone, especially budding young people back in Africa who often have mighty utopian dreams about …

Barring the lateness of the Special Guest of Honour, Operabuja 2009 lived up to its high billing and once again satisfied the longings of many who have had enough of …

I commend young aspiring writers from Nigeria. I urge them that even though Nigeria may have a poor reading culture or writing does not attract the kind of fame of …

I’m a Christian. Like other believers, I live my days with the expectation that very soon, our savior will appear in heaven to take us home. But on a fateful …

The Nobel Prize Committee and its intellectual hamlet have not forgiven Chinua Achebe for equating his book as the antithesis of Conrad’s Heart of darkness. Those that witnessed the event …