Is it really the case that the Nigerian situation is a result of a dearth of solutions? Anyone who believes that is in deep denial. There is an over-abundance of …
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Clearly making the transition from the short story to the novel, in my view, has been problematic for Helon Habila. I have bought both books that he has written – …
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When I think of Ojaide’s latest book, The Activist, two words come to mind – sheer drivel. It fairly reeks of unalloyed mediocrity…
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Out of the seething, smoldering ruins of our collective horrid judgment, a giant Phoenix is born, worthy prodigy of the master Phoenix Chinua Achebe. Achebe lives! Adichie lives! Hurrah for …
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Out of the seething, smoldering ruins of our collective horrid judgment, a giant Phoenix is born, worthy prodigy of the master Phoenix Chinua Achebe. Achebe lives! Adichie lives! Hurrah for …
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I am thinking that when the soldiers come back to loot, er, rule, we now have something to keep them in line. If they start misbehaving and stealing, we will …
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In Ike Oguine’s A Squatter’s Tale, we see what happens when what passes for free enterprise is layered on a rickety structure of governance. The result is capitalism of the …
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Acting on the advice of my lawyers, I don’t take lunch to work anymore. I do miss chomping on cow foot, ox tail and stockfish at lunch time. I don’t …
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In America, our days do not morph into nights. The days clash into the nights and the explosions send us shell-shocked into the bosom of tired gods. Dawn comes with …
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Soyinka’s new book You Must Set Forth at Dawn, is a dizzying tour de force in many ways. Soyinka manages to situate himself in every major event in Nigeria’s troubled …
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Whiteman is an improbable tale told beautifully. It is possible but highly improbable that the main character could zip through a wide swathe of Africa and not meet an intellectual …
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Ah, Beko… so you finally stepped into the molue that races newly minted gods to the pantheon of the brave. Good for you, Beko, good for you. You must be …
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There is absolutely no excuse for the mayhem that plays out in Nigeria every day. Under the watch of a greedy cabal of intellectuals, pastors, priests, imams, and our agbada-clad weevils, …
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Here I am standing in the fork at the end of the road. My mother calls from deep inside Africa and this time work must wait. My wife mama bomboy …
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I will be walking home soon to Nigeria. I am going home to be rich. I am not talking of going home to land contracts that I will never execute. …
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For our brother Governor Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, go, go serve our sentence, we are all thieves! When you return our rusting guns will boom a thousand times for the …