Arts & Books

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,...

June 17 Is Achebe Day Because Of ‘Things Fall Apart’

On Tuesday, June 17, 1958, Things Fall Apart was published in England. The book has over the years become a standout phenomenon as one of...

Film: Tool for Socio-cultural Integration and Tourism Promotion

Film, as the word implies, is defined as a thin sheet or strip of flexible material, such as a cellulose derivative or a thermoplastic resin,...

The Accidental Public Servant

It is an indelible historical fact that Nigerian political development has been shaped by chance happenings, of unprepared leaders accidentally jumping onto the stage, rigging themselves into high political offices, for which they are neither academically equipped nor did they possess the requisite experience in statecraft...

Bona Ezeudu: Using Art To Contain Tragedy

Bona’s current work is a testament to an artist’s insistence that art can serve as an idiom of rebirth. In the current works, Bona celebrates life and offers the ultimate honor to a son whose star was abbreviated far too soon...

Visiting the Lagos Black Heritage Festival

The 2013 “Black in the Mediterranean Blue” event, part of the Lagos Black Heritage Festival in Nigeria, will celebrate that strong cultural bond between Brazil and the people of Nigeria. This year’s festival will be themed around a “Bring Back Brazil” concept, with Professor Wole Soyinka as Festival coordinator...

Celebrities on “The Princess Halliday Show”

One of the most important television shows in the world is kicking off on DSTV this February. It is an Empower Africa Initiative show...

A (layman’s) praise of Nse Ikpe-Etim and watchable Mr. Mrs.

A good thing, it is said, cannot possibly remain hidden or in obscurity forever. In the case of Nollywood actress Nse Ikpe-Etim, this could hardly be truer. Her thespian star continues to grow in such a way that one can no longer ignore her acting prowess...

Lucky Dube: Who are Killing the Prophets of Reggae?

It is very unfortunate that both Peter Tosh and Lucky Dube were killed by fellow blacks. Were their killers acting for themselves or as agents of faceless, but powerful external forces? Is their murder the handiwork of persons who felt pricked by the messages contained in the lyrics of their songs?

The Evolution of Nigerian Poetry

Poetry in Nigeria, the most populous African country, has evolved remarkably over five decades of independence. My grandfather was a poet who composed in his head and shared his culture through epic poems, employing the craft as a way of remembering oral history, stories, genealogy, and law...

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Americans and indeed people of other nationalities living in different cities across America are afraid. We are all still locked in an inner struggle between our rational and usual way of life and strange but understandable propensity to yield to a dull but now constant fear and panic.

Nigeria; 2011 Elections, The Leadership Challenge (2)

It would appear that the young voters in Nigeria have become analytical and prefer performance ability to supporting ethnic chieftains. It can be recalled that this type of consciousness put Obama in the White House...

Prosperity, Eternity (13): Old Testament Saints had Bosoms

We cannot entertain angels if we are living in sealed houses. We cannot if only those we harbor in our homes are our ‘loved ones’ and our close friends. Learn to harbor missionaries, the persecuted believers, the physically-challenged, orphans and the others who are in need...

Musings on the Future of the World

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These Things Nigerians Need To Take Back: INEC, NTA and Nigerian Police

It is a well known fact that the power of the gun, the power of information and the power of legitimacy are necessary to maintain any government in power. As such any society that surrenders the apparatus of information, security and electoral legitimacy to a particular group or sect of people does so at its own peril...

Congratulations to Abati’s Daughter and Family

It is heartwarming to celebrate and congratulate Dr Reuben...

Justice Delayed and Denied: A Review of ‘No Clean Up, No Justice’

Title: No Clean Up, No JusticeAuthor: Godwin Uyi Ojo,...

Gov. T.A. Orji and the Budget of Hopelessness

Governance ought to be a complete public business, not a complete personal business. Our people would have suggested to the governor that borrowing is part of governance, but only when it is done reasonably...

Haiti and Nigeria: Case studies in failure of Human Management of natural resources

Haiti remains a constant site of catastrophe because of its heart-tugging social ills. Poverty remains the chief, also including deforestation, unstable governments, poor building standards and low literacy rates. Or as Professor Richard Olson of the Florida International University puts it, “there is a whole bunch of things working against Haiti..."

Ekweremadu’s Prostitution Dream

We are not White people who do not have cultures that are rooted in morality. The whites believe that ‘it is my life to live.’ And we have seen where this has landed the world. Ekweremadu should not bring to Nigeria his experiences from Amsterdam...