Position Papers

In Manhattan, New York, a man was juggling barefoot along the street when curiously, a woman asked why. His reply: ‘I want to know how it feels because I am …

There is a broad alliance between culture, scholarship and imperial physics.  Before the West begins their slave merchandise or colonial robbery, or invasion, they start with scholarly misrepresentation of the …

It is imperative to subject Genocide’s Child, Dele Olojede’s Pulitzer winning story to metaphysics, psychoanalytic reading and a newer, pro-life criticism. Unlike The Diary of Anne Frank and The Story …

…The point is made in very subtle ways that women writers are a kind of second class citizens who should be kept together, – out of the mainstream – to …

…The point is made in very subtle ways that women writers are a kind of second class citizens who should be kept together, – out of the mainstream – to …

I became literate in English but remain illiterate in Igbo – my native tongue. I learned Latin – a dead language I would never use in the modern world… Today, …

Nigeria has not developed a culture of celebrating honest, hard-working achievers. Instead we have allowed others to foist upon us a paradoxical anti-intellectual situation in which recognition, indeed the highest …

Nigeria has not developed a culture of celebrating honest, hard-working achievers. Instead we have allowed others to foist upon us a paradoxical anti-intellectual situation in which recognition, indeed the highest …

The Federal Government and its officers will stand charge of complicity and dereliction of duty should it fail to condemn this fatwa imposed on a Nigerian citizen…

Perhaps the antecedents of any serious modern black South African literary production could be located in the fifties when political repression was at its most physically visible…

Perhaps the antecedents of any serious modern black South African literary production could be located in the fifties when political repression was at its most physically visible…

Since most contemporary receptions of The Tempest from Lamming to Skura are politicised one should attempt to locate them within the Colonial/Post-Colonial dialectics in order to properly apprehend traditional criticism.

Since most contemporary receptions of The Tempest from Lamming to Skura are politicised one should attempt to locate them within the Colonial/Post-Colonial dialectics in order to properly apprehend traditional criticism.

Since most contemporary receptions of The Tempest from Lamming to Skura are politicised one should attempt to locate them within the Colonial/Post-Colonial dialectics in order to properly apprehend traditional criticism.

To put it in typical Achebe fashion, it is easy for the man who defecates to forget the stench of his own excreta but the man who has to clean …