Arts & Books

Day Prof Charles Nnolim Disowned Me

It’s impossible to meet Professor Charles Ekwusiaga Nnolim without getting a surprise or two. He always had a twist in the tail of the...

An Only Child Named Friday

Homage: Return To Familiar Places - The Memoir by Chidi Amuta; Wilson & Weizmann Associates Limited, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria; 2025; 492pp It can indeed be...

The Fortress of Delusion: Satire, Power and Self-Deception

By Enam Obiosio Uzor Maxim Uzoatu’s ‘White Men Can’t Write’ is not merely a short story. It is a political fable disguised as absurdist comedy,...

Looted Benin Artworks: Before the West Returns Them (I)

Two occurrences under consideration, first in 2019 in Nigeria and France in 2017 include criticism which assailed the Muhammadu Buhari government announcement that it...

Literary Community Reunites for dispossessed in Awka

Some of the finest literary minds in Nigeria were in Awka Saturday 14 December for the public presentation of James Eze’s brilliant collection of...

Scrap Creative Industry Financing Initiative

Scrap Creative Industry Financing Initiative, CIFI, CERLSI petitions FG Benin City, Nigeria…The Civil Empowerment & Rule of Law Support Initiative, CERLSI, has urged the Federal...

Free at last? Nigerian Artifacts may finally return home

Debunking persistent myths and showcasing that Africans had developed complex art and systems prior to slavery and colonialism. At last, quintessential Nigerian art may return...

Rapping: a Practice in Yoruba Culture that goes back a Millennium

If you do not tell the truth about what you know and understand about yourself, then others may tell lies based on what they...

“What’s My Name?”: The Brand that Changed How We Viewed Rap from Lagos to London

In 1992, the world of music changed and civility in the arts became a pejorative, as the once unacceptable and inflammatory content of hardcore...

Obiora Udechukwu: Honoring Genius, Moral Integrity

Last Friday, my wife and I traveled from New York City to Canton, upstate New York State, the location of St. Lawrence University. We...

The Movie ‘76: Princewill from a tycoon, to politician, and now film maker

The name Prince Tonye Princewill does not need any introduction to any person who has been a keen observer of the political milieu or...

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The Indispensible Economist Prof Uka Ezenwe

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How the Church Got Her Groove Back

The body of Christ in Nigeria took back what they had lost to the world with the successful staging of The Experience in Lagos last week. In an industry where it is the norm to charge gate toll in accordance with the caliber and number of performers, the organizers threw the gates wide open...

Meanings Africans Attach To A Name

African names have metamorphosed from epic to modern, and now to European. African languages are also on the verge of extinction, if not already in oblivion...

Ngozi Iweala, Our Next President

One of the greatest problems of Nigeria and most third world economies is the lack of continuity. In light of this factor, most international investors are wary of long term investments and in Nigeria; they are especially concerned as to who would succeed OBJ for good cause.  What better person than his Minister of Finance?

Life In America: San Ysidro Windsong

My friend, the blonde one teases me about carrying my passport. She doesn't have to worry, she is a pretty blonde American, she will travel the world naked and American marines will die defending her right to be naked. I am a different issue altogether. I am American on paper. And I am black.

Occupy Nigeria – Atlanta

Nigerians, both at home and abroad seem to have found unison in decrying the lack of progress in the development of their country.  Continuous corruption, a lack of leadership, lack of security, the menace of Boko Haram terrorism...

War on Graft: As Magu’s Probe Lingers

In case Nigerians are gradually forgetting, the probe of...

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: The Asiwaju at 60?

The fact is that it was the reversals by the courts of some gubernatorial electoral ‘victories’ of the PDP in the South West that has provided the opportunity for this respected journalist to shift his focus to the person of the ‘Asiwaju’, ’Bola Tinubu of Lagos.  I accept that he does not go as far as some to canonise him but has used a cleverer tactic of conflating and confusing the ends and means of progressive politics...

How Safe Is Nigeria?

What if the U.S. State Department placed the recent travel advisory on Nigeria because of intelligence reports about rumblings in the army barracks?

Royal Baby

There was nothing funny about a bloodied up grown man weeping hysterically in public, and complaining to whoever cared to listen that they robbed him of the 10,000 naira he wanted to use to fly to London to see the royal baby...